The Active Directory standard is LDAP plus Kerberos, this is correct?
2013/8/27 David Burke <dmbs...@gmail.com> > Sorry I missed it. Just watching it now. > > I can tell you about my experience with central authentication outside of > Active Directory. I've tried out Zentyal 3.0 with Samba4 in two use cases > recently. > > 1. Joining an existing Active Directory domain as an additional domain > controller. This was an interesting experiment but I have to suggest not > doing this. It quickly got out of sync with our other domain controllers. > Aside from this it's very slow, for example just navigating the directory > tree from a Windows client is very slow compared to AD. I tried running a > samba print server on it but found it a painful experience. Many features > just don't work such as listing printers in a directory. We killed off the > server after a month. > 2. Lone Zentyal server. I haven't had as many issues here and it is in > production usage. This is a mostly Linux environment so we are using CUPS > instead of samba printing. The free version I'm using is less reliable than > Active Directory. Updates often break things. It requires considerable > Linux sys admin knowledge when the gui breaks. I believe their paid version > has a different repository that is more well tested. Overall I would say > Zentyal is easier to manage than pure openldap, but not nearly as stable or > feature complete as MS Active Directory. One reason we migrated to samba4 > here was to use pam_winbind instead of pam_ldap. I find pam_ldap with > cached credentials to be highly unreliable. Kerberos ticketing is also nice. > > Would love to hear any stories of using Samba4, directory 389, etc. I'm > hoping samba4 matures enough by the time Server 2003 support ends. > > Best, > David Burke > > > > > On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 2:00 AM, Bolesław Tokarski < > boleslaw.tokar...@tieto.com> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> We will be having a UDS session today at 16:05 CET: >> >> >> http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-1308/meeting/21950/community-1308-ubuntu-enterprise-desktop-roundtable/ >> >> Feel invited to join the session. >> >> Cheers, >> Ballock >> >> -- >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~enterprise-ubuntu >> Post to : enterprise-ubuntu@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~enterprise-ubuntu >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~enterprise-ubuntu > Post to : enterprise-ubuntu@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~enterprise-ubuntu > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > -- Q: Why is this email five sentences or less? A: http://five.sentenc.es
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