[Samba] Why ADS if I can join the ADS domain as an NT 4 server?

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Chere Zhou wrote:

> Hello, all,
> 
> I can not easily find an answer to this question: why do we need samba 3.0 to 
> join an ADS, if samba 2.x can join the ADS domain just as well, even though 
> the PDC is in native mode?  What's the benefit for samba 3.0 to be a member 
> of ADS?  What restrictions I have if joining samba 2.x to the domain as an 
> NT4 server?

Samba 3.0 will speak kerberos & LDAP when communicating with a Win2k DC.



cheers, jerry 
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