David Boreham wrote: > Joshua Kampmeier wrote: > >> I was wondering if the Fedora Directory Server supports Windows >> clients? I didn't see anything on the site about it. Sorry if it's >> there and I just missed it. >> >> > FDS is an LDAP server : so it supports any LDAP client, which would of > course > include software running on the Windows OS. But I suspect that isn't > your real question. > Are you asking if it's possible to use FDS for Microsoft's user and > machine authentication > mechanisms, as a drop-in replacement for their Active Directory ? If > so the answer is no, > because those mechanisms use additional protocols beyond standard > LDAP. It should be possible to > achieve AD-replacement with the new Samba4 and FDS as a back-end but > AFAIK that project is still in development. > Though, using Samba3 as an nt4 domain controller works fine. > > -- > Fedora-directory-users mailing list > Fedora-directory-users at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users >
