[Samba] Samba and Active Directory Implications

[Adam Williams]

> 1.) How having linux boxes in AD affects replication

The question is: How would it possibly effect replication?  Do they know
what they are talking about?

> 2.) If it is possible to authenticate against the Linux boxes without
> actually joining the AD domain

Do you mean authenticate against AD without joining the Linux box to the
AD realm?  You'd probably have to mangle the security on AD a bit, but
kerberos is not going to work unless the KDC (in this case AD) knows
about the "client".