Linux replacement for Windows Domain Server

[Ralph Janke]

These things were under contention with the EU commission and the reason
for several very high fines. In the end, Microsoft was ordered to hand over
the apis necessary to build a fully compatible active directory domain 
controller.

Before that judgement, the samba team had to painstakingly reverse 
engineer every
bit of the communication protocols, and at the time, they did not really 
plan
to build a full domain controller. However, with the opening of the apis 
this
seem to have changed now. However, I have read somewhere that Microsoft
is still not very forthcoming with the obligations put on them by the 
European Court.
So those actions may still cause delays in this matter.

Ralphra

Bob Jonkman wrote:
> I've been reading stuff at http://samba.org/ but the best I'd been able 
> to come up with was that "Samba can act as a standalone file- and 
> print-server".  Not quite the domain controller I'm looking for.
>
> Ralph Janke points me to Samba4, which still appears to be under major 
> development: Samba4 "should be considered _experimental_, and should not 
> be used in production."  But I'm lured by "One of the goals of Samba4 is 
> to implement an Active Directory compatible Domain Controller" and 
> that's the thing I'm looking for.
>
> Thanx all!
>
> --Bob.
>
>
> Tony Yarusso wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Bob Jonkman <bjonkman at sobac.com> wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> What would be the Linux replacement for a Windows Domain Controller?
>>>
>>> Is there a Debian package for this?
>>>
>>> --Bob.
>>>     
>>>       
>> A combination of the samba and winbind packages should do it.  There's
>> also likewise-open5, which I'm not really sure how it fits in the mix.
>>
>>  - Tony Yarusso
>>
>>   
>>     
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