[Samba] Samba newbie question...

[Bradley W. Langhorst]

On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 14:27, daveman at bellatlantic.net wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 04:40:20PM -0500, daveman at bellatlantic.net wrote:
> > Can Samba be used as a complete replacement for a Windows 2000 Active Directory server? I have some vague notion that this can be accomplished by using a combination of OpenLDAP, Samba, MIT Kerberos, and the OpenAFS file system. To say the least, the descriptions I have found have been vague as to whether or not I will be able to completely replace the functionality of an Active Directory server with a similar setup.
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> > If this is possible, could someone point me to reasonably good documentation on the subject?
> > 
> > Thanks so much.
> > --David
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> >From the number of replies I received on this,(none) it seems fair to assume that this is not entirely possible. Anyone able to tell me what the current limitations are? I would really like to set up a system using samba as much as possible for domain and file serving operations. I suppose I can supplement samba with a win2k server if I have to... ;-)
samba can't serve active directory....

you might not really need it.

samba does work great as a PDC for large numbers of XP and NT/2k
workstations

brad

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