On Mar 23, 2015, at 12:35 PM, Gilbert Wilson <gilb...@watchhouse.org> wrote:
>> I'm amused everyone seems to be telling you to set up an AD >> infrastructure when you have absolutely no windows clients or >> servers. > > That’s because AD is a first tier directory server for OS X systems. > Arguably, at this point, Apple provides better support for AD than OD. I am well aware of AD’s place, and we may well consider it on the merits of it being so popular. However, we literally have no basis for supporting Windows. We have no Windows servers, and only 3 Windows clients (point of sale and building management). Every time I do have to interact with Windows, I’m reminded of why I never want to. It’s just a huge learning curve because the mental model is so different from unix. I don’t know where to look (no /var/log!), what tools to use (grep? less? perl?), which patches to run, do I need antivirus on a server? Obviously, these are all issues that we can be trained up on, but it’s an awful lot for a single service. Since AD (the protocol/concept) is so well-supported, we may put Samba at the top of the list. We too tried it out right after 4 was released, but found the documentation lacking. It’s been a couple years, so we can give it another chance… On that note, any consultants to recommend, or has everyone gone it alone on their installs? Jason -- Jason Healy | jhe...@logn.net | http://www.logn.net/ _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
