[Cialug] Active Directory equivalent?

[David Bierce]

Ello --

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.

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 :)

Has anyone tried Red Hat Directory Server?  It was insane to compile,  
test and configure as source, but until recently so was OpenLDAP.

The mostly Silent Reader,
Dave


On Mar 9, 2007, at 1:44 PM, Nathan C. Smith 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
>
> 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 group has been given a hypothetical company with heavily outdated  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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