[Cialug] Active Directory equivalent?

[David Bierce]

Ello --

OpenLDAP is of similar configuration.  Are you using Single or Multi  
master replication?  I have a couple of setups that use LDAPs single  
master, but it really leaves something to be desired.

Dave

On Mar 10, 2007, at 10:51 PM, Richard Harms wrote:

> 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
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