[Samba] A qustion about samba

[Ondrej Valousek]

Theoretically yes but:
- the official stable Samba 3.x can mimic only NT-style domains
- Win7s are no longer able to join NT domains by default (registry hack 
is needed)
- replication using OpenLdap backend could turn into a nightmare (as a 
standalone server will Samba do fine though)

So I would say - if your time is cheap and you are fancy playing with 
it, then go for it and try it.
Otherwise - purchase a license for Active Directory controllers and 
forget about all problems.

Ondrej


M.Saeed Ansari wrote:
> Hello ,
> I'm a student in Shahed university in IRAN .
> Now I'm become a member of our uni IT-Center .
> We are going to have an organized network with a en-bloc user
> authentication and proxy server.
> In comparison between MS AD and Samba ,  i want to choose Samba server
> ( cause of my belief in Open Source ) .
> Our plan have a Forest(root : shahed.ac.ir) and trees for faculties
> (like : eng.shahed.ac.ir  , maybe have child ) and maybe for
> internet-site we may have a new forest (we should have trust between
> these domains ).
> In every site we should have DC and SQUID Proxy server ( for control
> and sharing internet in the best way ) .
> note : all of our clients have windows XP or se7en .
> My questions are :
> can we completely handle our plan with Samba server ? , for
> replication and trust what we should do ?  we should use openLDAP for
> our plan ? what is your suggestion for what we are going to do ? witch
> distribution of LINUX is appropriate for our plan ?
>
> Best regards .
>