[Samba] Samba as Active Directory replacement - is it possible?

[John H Terpstra]

On Tuesday 21 September 2004 04:49, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been trying to figure out if it's possible to replace Active
> Directory with Samba (+ OpenLDAP, Kerberos, DNS etc.) on Linux - but
> from what I've found I'm not sure.
>
> Is it possible, or partially possible (I don't need every feature of AD)?
> What additional software (besides Samba) will I need?
>
> What functionality will I loose?
>
> Where can I find any HOWTOS/documents on this? I spent an hour googling
> but found nothing promising so far.

http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-Guide.pdf

Check chapters 5,6,7,9

If you need more information contact me direct.

- John T.

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>
> Tomek
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John H Terpstra
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