[Cialug] Samba as BDC?

[David Bierce]

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.

Windows server as a way to manage windows desktops is still king and Samba doesn't look to unseat is anytime soon

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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..





On Apr 15, 2011, at 1:47 PM, Matthew Nuzum wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:47 PM, David Bierce <david at bierce.org> wrote:
> Last I checked, if it's an NT4 domain, Kinda of.
> If it's an AD domain, No*
> 
> 
> *It's in Beta.  In small environments most of the traffic is DNS lookups.
> 
> 
> And if I recall correctly, it's been in beta quite a while.
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