I've tried to research this but been coming up relatively empty, so any references and examples you can give would be appreciated. I've used LDAP but not in this context.
We have a network at our school of various Fedora Core servers and Windows desktops. We'd like to create a homogeneous login system. Fedora can use LDAP of course, but what about Windows. I know ActiveDirectory runs an LDAP server, but can we use FDS as a replacement to AD so that the Windows98 and XP machines we have will use FDS for authentication? Will FDS also do the various other AD functions (like Outlook addresses, etc)?
Thanks.
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On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 12:21 -0800, Wayne Johnson wrote:
I've tried to research this but been coming up relatively empty, so any references and examples you can give would be appreciated. I've used LDAP but not in this context.
We have a network at our school of various Fedora Core servers and Windows desktops. We'd like to create a homogeneous login system. Fedora can use LDAP of course, but what about Windows. I know ActiveDirectory runs an LDAP server, but can we use FDS as a replacement to AD so that the Windows98 and XP machines we have will use FDS for authentication? Will FDS also do the various other AD functions (like Outlook addresses, etc)?
---- Samba can provide login/domain controller functions for Windows networking but on a level of NT Server and use FDS as the authentication backend - thus your Windows desktop systems can authenticate, get roaming profiles and some level of policy management.
FDS can be configured as a datastore for shared & personal addressbooks as well without much difficulty.
Probably best to start with the samba documentation - http://www.samba.org/samba/docs but by design, LDAP implementation is up to the system administrators and there is no one way to do things.
Craig
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