[Cialug] Active Directory equivalent?

[Richard Harms]

We're using Fedora Directory Server, including its support for  
automatic replication of Active Directory from a Windows 2003 server.  
It was extremely painful to setup (mostly due to inconsistent  
documentation). I'm not sure how Red Hat's version of it compares. We  
have a number of FC 5 workstations that authenticate against it, and  
it works quite well.

-rh

On Mar 9, 2007, at 1:58 PM, David Bierce wrote:

> 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