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On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 11:25 +0200, Rene Zbinden wrote: |
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> Has anyone experience using samba as PDC and BDC with OpenLDAP as backend? |
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> Is it possible to totally go away from Windows Active Directories Servers to |
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> the above solution? What are the Drawbacks? |
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I have set up two schools with this configuration. It does work and |
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work well. It is not a replacement for AD Server though. It basically |
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operates in NT compatibility mode. The main problems that you will run |
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into is with services that are in win2k server (if you even use them) |
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that require AD to function. (RAS,DNS,DHCP). |
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Other than that if you just have a lot of 2k/XP machines you want to |
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join to the network, it works great. |
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