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

[Roland Giesler]

I'm actually considering a similar exercise.  I understand to run OpenLDAP
you would need some database like PostGRE or mySQL (someone, can't remember
who, said you need PostGRE)

Roland


> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-bounces+roland=giesler.za.net at lists.samba.org 
> [mailto:samba-bounces+roland=giesler.za.net at lists.samba.org] 
> On Behalf Of John H Terpstra
> Sent: 21 September 2004 17:36
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba as Active Directory replacement - 
> is it possible?
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> >
> >
> > Tomek
> >
> > 
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