[Cialug] Active Directory equivalent?

[Donovan Skarin]

Company is 300 and some odd bodies, with 172 desktops and (currently) 4
servers. There's going to be a mix of Linux and Windows until we get all of
the hardware replaced, with the Windows boxes ranging from 9x to ME to NT4.
Regardless of potential overkill, We're going to want something this, if for
no other reason than that we know as fact now that a member of the panel we
are presenting this to WILL be asking questions about this.
Which brings me to a new question or two...
What all is involved in setting up OpenLDAP to propagate its policy across
the network, and how hard is it to go in and change things after the initial
configuration?

On 3/9/07, Nathan C. Smith <smith at ipmvs.com> wrote:
>
>  OpenLDAP
>
> How big is the company.  Active Directory is almost overkill for smallish
> companies and required by Microsoft mostly for Exchange 2000 and up.  You
> can emulate a lot of the features of AD with Samba and OpenLDAP etc.
>
>
> -Nate
>
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> *From:* Donovan Skarin [mailto:n3ophyt3 at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Friday, March 09, 2007 1:22 PM
> *To:* cialug at cialug.org
> *Subject:* [Cialug] Active Directory equivalent?
>
>
>  I'm working on a project for my Associate's Degree, in which my group has
> been given a hypothetical company with heavily outdated hardware, and a
> crappy budget with which to improve the situation. In the interest of saving
> lots of our budget from licensing costs, we are going with a Linux
> environment. We pretty much know for a fact is that the people we present
> this to are going to grill us on all kinds of things, because we will be the
> first group to break away from a Microsoft environment. The main item that
> we don't have a ready answer to is Active Directory. Are there any
> equivalent features for an all-Linux network, and how do they compare with
> AD?
>
>
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