[Samba] Samba as Win2K Native DC

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Tue Jun 11 15:13:02 GMT 2002


On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 04:40:18PM -0400, Michael Konopka wrote:
> I've been searching for an answer to the following question, but without 
> a firm answer.
> 
> Is Samba going to support the functionality of a native W2K DC in the 
> near future?  If so, is there a timeline for implementation?

A native W2K DC is a combination of Samba/OpenLDAP/bind/krb5 and
probably DHCP also, all tied together into an LDAP backend store.

All these separate projects need to get together to implement
such a thing. Plans are being made, but it will probably be next
year sometime.

Jeremy.




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