<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Ello --<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>True, but it really depends on which which features you want. If you want a very large set of permissions and user management and just want printing and windows shares the current implementation of OpenLDAP/Samba works great. But there are something that even the pending release of Samba4 doesn't allow on windows platforms. Namely group policy for local machine privileges. But if you just want Windows shares to play nice on your network, Samba+LDAP rocks.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>If you're looking for a pure Linux environment, LDAP+Kerberos for network resources is really a viable option, I'm even starting to see copy machines support it :)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Has anyone tried Red Hat Directory Server? It was insane to compile, test and configure as source, but until recently so was OpenLDAP.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The mostly Silent Reader,</DIV><DIV>Dave</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"><DIV><DIV><DIV>On Mar 9, 2007, at 1:44 PM, Nathan C. Smith wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="087334219-09032007"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">OpenLDAP</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="087334219-09032007"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="087334219-09032007"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">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.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="087334219-09032007"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="087334219-09032007"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="087334219-09032007"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">-Nate</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE dir="ltr" style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV class="OutlookMessageHeader" lang="en-us" dir="ltr" align="left"> <HR tabindex="-1"> <FONT face="Tahoma" size="2"><B>From:</B> Donovan Skarin [<A href="mailto:n3ophyt3@gmail.com">mailto:n3ophyt3@gmail.com</A>] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, March 09, 2007 1:22 PM<BR><B>To:</B> <A href="mailto:cialug@cialug.org">cialug@cialug.org</A><BR><B>Subject:</B> [Cialug] Active Directory equivalent?<BR></FONT><BR></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>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? </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Cialug mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:Cialug@cialug.org">Cialug@cialug.org</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/cialug">http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/cialug</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>