[Samba] Deploying apps via policy

[Mister Olli]

Hi,

don't know about that. Would be nice too. Somehow implementing Active
Directory with Samba4 is a straight-forward job and enables espacially
small companies to have a well structured IT. trust me this solves a lot
of problems with daily IT ;-))
It's somehow cheap as you already have some kind for server for central
data storage/ printers/ scanners/ ... but not licence costs.

Some thing I'm currently missing is ability to configure samba shares
with some MS tool (don't know if this would ever be possible???) that
integrates into MS domain administration tools.

Btw having GPO at place reduces much of the "hand work" you have to to
for client PC setup.


Regards,
---
Mr. Olli


On Sat, 2009-07-18 at 13:22 -0400, mjoyner at ewc.edu wrote:
> I understand that if you use the Novell Directory + Samba combination
> that somehow you can also do alot of AD style stuff.
> 
> Mister Olli wrote: 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > If you use samba4 you can replace microsoft AD DC controller with samba.
> > I've done this on a FreeBSD machine for a small company (around 5
> > people) and it works quite well. I currently have some problems getting
> > roaming profiles to work (and no time for it ;-)).
> > 
> > After setup you need a windows machine for domain administration on
> > which you install windows 2003 admin pack (not sure if this is the
> > correct name). you can then administer your domain as you're used to...
> > 
> > from what I've read multi master replication with openldap should be
> > possible. never tried. but from my (current limited) knowledge you can
> > even setup more than one DC for your active directory...
> > 
> > by time I will play a little more with this features and setup some blog
> > to document all that stuff..
> > 
> > Regards,
> > ---
> > Mr. Olli
> > 
> > On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 15:37 -0300, Norberto Bensa wrote:
> >   
> > > On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Mister Olli<mister.olli at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > >     
> > > > It's a guide on how to install fonts using WinInstall. This one creates
> > > > a MSI package that you can install via GPO.
> > > >       
> > > GPO? With Samba? I'm interested. What version are you using?
> > >     
> > 
> >   
> 
> 
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