On 4/22/2014 3:02 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 4/22/2014 11:52 AM, Steve Campbell wrote:
>> But do the workgroups have their own login scripts on the server? That's
>> sort of been the difference between using workgroups and domains, at
>> least from any readings I've done so far. We actually break the
>> "workgroups/domains" down into departmental groups.
> workgroups are just groupings of peer hosts for the 'network
> neighborhood' view. nothing more or less. most importantly, they
> don't include any 'server' or centralized authentication, thats what
> Active Directory provides.
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> In Microsoft's Active Directory, you put users and systems in "OU"
> (Organizational Units), and each OU can have group policies and those
> policies can specify login scripts, these can do things like map network
> drives for users. Presumably, Samba's implementation of AD offers a
> similar facility, but I don't think the domain management tools in Samba
> are anywhere near as well integrated or full featured as what you get
> with a Windows Server system.
Another samba 4 advantage, I think:
You can load and use Windows Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT)
to manage the domains. How completely? Time will tell.
steve
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