sernet.de/en/samba/ seems to have the most promising SaMBa binaries
and make an ISO image to download. Described as "
http://www.enterprisesamba.com/samba4app/
Setting up a new domain without existing ADS:
http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/HOWTO#Provisioning_Samba_.28Setting_up_a_new_domain.29
http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/HOWTO/Join_a_domain_as_a_DC
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 12:50 PM, James A. Peltier <jpeltier@xxxxxx> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> | I am the IT Development Specialist for a small community college and
> | our
> | CIO has asked me to explore an alternative to Microsoft Active
> | Directory as
> | we are separating from our parent university and funding is tight so
> | we
> | were looking into CentOS with 389 Directory Server.
> |
> | Any advise or suggestions would be very helpful.
> |
> | Jacob Tennant
>
> No, we use Active Directory because it's the right tool for the job. I think that you will find that you will have a difficult time finding another product that will provide all the tools that AD provides when working with Windows. If you are working with Windows and Windows only just use AD it's the "right thing". If you're in a mixed bag of Windows, Mac and GNU/Linux, just use AD, it's likely still the "right thing".
>
> If you only need basic authentication than Samba will likely suit your needs. On what scale are you talking? 2 workstations, 50 workstations, 100s workstations?
>
> --
> James A. Peltier
> Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group
> Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus
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> Fax : 778-782-3045
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>
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