On Mon, 2015-03-23 at 17:49 -0400, Jason Healy wrote: > On Mar 23, 2015, at 12:35 PM, Gilbert Wilson <gilb...@watchhouse.org> wrote: > 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.
All by AD DCs are LINUX boxes, there are no Window's DCs. > It’s just a huge learning curve because the mental model is so > different from unix. I don't see how. LDAP, Kerberos, and DNS - the most fundamental parts of Active Directory - are all of UNIX heritage. Active Directory will happily host and help manage RFC2307 identity information. I mean - FINALLY - a solution that uses DNS for auto-configuration, it is about *#&@*&@$ time, why could UNIX/LINUX never get its act together and do that? > 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… STICK TO THE WIKI! It really is drop-n-go. Do not go surfing around the web, there is too much crap, and Samba4 is not Samba3, so the search space is polluted. Google is not your friend. Yes, early 4.0 had some real thorns. > On that note, any consultants to recommend, or has everyone gone it > alone on their installs? I've just done it. I actually spend very little time looking at it - it just rolls. -- Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awill...@whitemice.org> GPG D95ED383 OpenGroupware Developer <http://www.opengroupware.us/> _______________________________________________ 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/
