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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
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Donovan Skarin
[mailto:n3ophyt3@gmail.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, March 09, 2007 1:22
PM<BR><B>To:</B> cialug@cialug.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Cialug] Active
Directory equivalent?<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<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been given a hypothetical company with heavily outdated hardware, and a crappy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?
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