Yes. I believe it is more than that though. The wikipedia article<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Directory>is pretty good. Some important features I see are replication and because it's the de facto standard most things work with it.
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Marcos Barbosa < marcosestevesbarb...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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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