[brlug-general] Samba as a domain controller

[Dustin Puryear]

Well, you can't do AD with a Samba DC right now anyway. Still NT domain
AFAIK, at least in the table branch.

I just don't see a real advantage to a Samba DC anymore, especially
since a base install of Windows 2003 is really very inexpensive.

-----Original Message-----
From: general-bounces at brlug.net [mailto:general-bounces at brlug.net] On
Behalf Of Tim Fournet
Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 12:04 PM
To: general at brlug.net
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Samba as a domain controller

Also, make sure you develop a much bigger understanding of AD on Windows
before even trying to to the Linux route. It's a lot more complex than
"file sharing"

-Tim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dustin Puryear" <dpuryear at puryear-it.com>
To: general at brlug.net
Sent: Thursday, April 9, 2009 11:20:06 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Samba as a domain controller

Very little to be honest. I love Samba, but it's very rare that I see it
working better than a Windows DC. Also, sure, you can do some LDAP
replication tricks to help with redundancy, but having two Windows DCs
is simple to setup (real, real simple) and works out-of-the-box.

We used a Samba-LDAP DC here for a while, but have since dropped it for
Windows 2003 AD. Life is simpler.

-----Original Message-----
From: general-bounces at brlug.net [mailto:general-bounces at brlug.net] On
Behalf Of Joe Fruchey
Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 9:37 PM
To: general at brlug.net
Subject: [brlug-general] Samba as a domain controller

I've been doing Windows desktop support for ten or twelve years. At
work, it's basically me and the server/networking guy. Well, he got a
better offer, so he's out the door after Wednesday, which means I'm
basically shoehorned into the server/network admin position. It's a
role I've wanted to take on for years now, and I'm really excited
about it.

TMI, sorry.

Anyhow, I'm finally in a position where I can make decisions, and I've
always wondered how feasible Samba would be as a domain controller in
a real-world environment. We have about 500 users and 300 computers.
What advantages would it offer over Windows Server 2008's Active
Directory? (Free being the primary example.)

Thanks, guys.

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