aT wroteI am thinking of migrating my small organization completely on Linux, We have a small NT domain controller for central authentication and sharing of network resources.
My first question was, what's the alternate of NT Domain controller, and sharing of network resources in Linux?
Any suggestions?
Short answer : LDAP/NIS/NFS
I agree with Justin here -- it sounded like the original poster was asking
about moving an organization away from a Windows environment and running
them on Linux, rather than running something on linux to support the
Windows environment at large (though this can certainly be done easily
too with Linux/Samba of course).
You want to look into a standard distribution, for ease of maintenance,
home directories on NFS for consolidated backups, NIS/LDAP for centralized
user account information, and OpenOffice/Crossover for "productivity" stuff.
Use bind for DNS, squid for www proxy/cache, sendmail for MTA, and Evolution
for the end user email application (it looks/functions much like Outlook).
There are lots of good browsers - I like phoenix.
I don't even think there is any need for NIS anymore in an environment where LDAP lives. I am working on just this sort of conversion at one of my clients, getting them under a unified LDAP environment and tossing out NIS (which is still too proprietary a protocol to be general enough for a generalized mixed environment, if such is your goal).
So, really I'd say LDAP/NFS/SMB (and I only throw in the SMB part for those
Windows clients out there, should there be any -- easy enough to set up
your network at the outset to support Windows clients, so why not do it?
K
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