Thanks a lot for the help. Actually I am interested in using CentOS as Server for the AD and not to join the CentOS to AD. I need a help how to configure the centOS 5 as AD server for win2k and winXP users. Regards Adriatik On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 23:35 -0500, Paul wrote: > On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 07:09 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > zen@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > On Monday 23 July 2007 14:33:18 Adriatik Allamani wrote: > > >> Hello > > >> > > >> For the moment I manage the user in the network with win 2000 Server. > > >> I want to use an linux OS to manaxhe the network? Is this possible. > > >> > > >> So. How can I organize and configure the Cent OS to use it as Active > > >> Directory or something like this, and to open all the existing users > > >> there, and then to shut down the win2000 Server and to Activate the > > >> CentOS as domain controller? > > >> > > >> Can someone help me in this? > > > > > > It really depends on what parts of AD are you using. To centralize > > > user/password management and home directories OpenLDAP should be sufficient. > > > But if you want to replace more sophisticated AD features (software > > > deployment, etc.), ther is nothing good enough (and Open Source/Free) for > > > Linux. > > > If your environment is mostly Windows based, I'd stay with AD. > > > > Basically, the Samba that comes with CentOS-4 or CentOS-5 can do a > > WindowsNT type domain via LDAP. You can connect Windows servers and > > Clients (2000, 2003, XP ... not sure about vista) to this kind of domain > > and share printers, file servers, etc. > > > > The CentOS-5 samba can JOIN an active directory domain as a file server, > > but it can not be a domain controller. > > If your interested in having a CentOS Samba server join an AD domain the > following howto might be useful. > > http://www.howtoforge.com/samba_ads_security_mode > > Regards, > Paul Berger > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos