Advantages of native ADS membership

[Matthew Geddes]

Steven French wrote:
>>Volker wrote:
>>
>>Assuming that I can access the Samba server from a W2k workstation,
>>why would I want to be a kerberized ADS member?
>>
> 
> Here are few reasons:
> 1) You want to be Kerberized for more secure session establishment
> 2) You want your servers to be an Active Directory member so your servers
> show up in the active directory namespace presumably making them easier to
> locate
> 3) You want your servers to be an Active Directory member so you can
> leverage some of the existing configuration/management/administration tools
> that look in Active Directory for server configuration data.

4) Because your 'Pointy-haired' boss saw some article in a glossy IT 
management magazine. :-)

Matt