On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 12:21 -0800, Wayne Johnson wrote:
I've tried to research this but been coming up relatively empty,
so
any references and examples you can give would be appreciated. I've
used LDAP but not in this context.
We have a network at our school of various Fedora Core servers and
Windows desktops. We'd like to create a homogeneous login system.
Fedora can use LDAP of course, but what about Windows. I know
ActiveDirectory runs an LDAP server, but can we use FDS as a
replacement to AD so that the Windows98 and XP machines we have will
use FDS for authentication? Will FDS also do the various other AD
functions (like Outlook addresses, etc)?
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Samba can provide login/domain controller functions for Windows
networking but on a level of NT Server and use FDS as the authentication
backend - thus your Windows desktop systems can authenticate, get
roaming profiles and some level of policy management.
FDS can be configured as a datastore for shared & personal addressbooks
as well without much difficulty.
Probably best to start with the samba documentation -
http://www.samba.org/samba/docs but by design, LDAP implementation is up
to the system administrators and there is no one way to do things.
Craig