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)? ---- 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
