<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">It's been in Beta Forever. I remember looking at it in 2000, using a tech preview of it in 2009, and it still doesn't work 100% now. It's to the point where a few of my environments when from Samba NT4 style domains to Win2008R2. Samba can join an AD domain and share files, but it doesn't do much else.<div><br></div><div>Windows server as a way to manage windows desktops is still king and Samba doesn't look to unseat is anytime soon</div><div><br></div><div>--</div><div><br></div><div>It's also worth noting that if the domain he's trying to migrate is NT style, he can really easily move the NT controller to a samba box, then make Samba BDCs all day long..<div><br></div><div><br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Apr 15, 2011, at 1:47 PM, Matthew Nuzum wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:47 PM, David Bierce <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david@bierce.org">david@bierce.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Last I checked, if it's an NT4 domain, Kinda of.<br>
If it's an AD domain, No*<br>
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*It's in Beta. In small environments most of the traffic is DNS lookups.<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>And if I recall correctly, it's been in beta quite a while.</div></div><br>-- <br><div>Matthew Nuzum<br>newz2000 on freenode, skype, linkedin and twitter<br>
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<div>victories." -Ronald Coase </div></div><br>
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