[Samba] replace winbind with ldap

vishesh kumar linuxtovishesh at gmail.com
Tue Dec 16 06:27:19 GMT 2008


Dear madars




On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 4:44 PM, Madars Vitolins <m at silodev.eu> wrote:

> Well,
>
> I would like to know the actual reason :)
> Is the licence price too high?
> Stability of the Win2003 Server?
> Or... virus posibilities?
> Something else?
>
> Well, I have similar situation, with not such count of client machines, but
> plan is to migrate to samba. I just wanted to know your reason.
>
> Thanks,
> Madars
>
>
> vishesh kumar wrote:
>
> dear madars
>
>    I am not migrating for interest but want to free server running windows
> active directory. Group Policy has not been implemented in our enviroment.
>
> thanks
>
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Madars Vitolins <m at silodev.eu><m at silodev.eu>wrote:
>
>> Hi Vishesh,
>>
>> Why do you want to migrate to openLdap?
>> Just for interest.
>>
>> One thing about your case I could say that openLdap won't support group
>> policy.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Madars
>>
>> vishesh kumar wrote:
>>
>>> dear all
>>>           Currently i am using samba 3.0.28 with windbind on rhel5.2. Our
>>> network consist almost 200 users and window 2003 active directory which
>>> holds domain data. Now i want to replace active directory with openldap.
>>> I
>>> want to know is there any tool that help to migrate Active Directory data
>>> to
>>> openldap ?
>>>
>>> thanks
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>


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