opensource alternatives

[Mike Rambo]

Scott Overfield wrote:
> 
> Interoperation for now, although eventually I would like to move away from
> mickeysoft altogether, at least in the back room....
> 

Amen - let us kneel and pray!  To answer your question though,
interoperation is a problem now and looks like it might be for a while. 
I'm on the one of the samba lists and see _a lot_ of traffic just about
simple file sharing and logins from win2k clients - and as I mentioned
before - full NT4 interoperation isn't even there yet (I think the
basically dead samba_tng branch has some NT4 capability which is still
not in the main samba branch).  My impression is that AD really isn't
very much on the radar at this point.

-- 
Mike Rambo
mrambo@lsd.k12.mi.us

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Rambo [mailto:mrambo@lsd.k12.mi.us]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 2:14 PM
> To: Scott Overfield
> Cc: linux-user@egr.msu.edu
> Subject: Re: opensource alternatives
> 
> Scott Overfield wrote:
> >
> > Good Afternoon,
> > Does anyone on the list know if it is possible to create an alternative to
> > windows 2000 active directory using open source software, such as samba,
> > openldap, kerberosV, openSSL, etc.? Could anyone point me toward any
> > documentation that they are aware of? Any help or suggestions
> > appreciated......
> >
> > ******************************************************
> > Scott Overfield
> > Network Administrator
> > Gratiot County Community Mental Health
> > 989-466-4109
> > soverfield@gccmha.org
> 
> Active Directory is a lot of things - I don't even know them all. Among
> them though, is dynamic dns which can be accomplished through the more
> recent versions of the ISC bind and dhcp servers (though the M$
> implementation, like usual, is at least partly proprietary). AD also has
> an M$ version of LDAP for authentication through central servers and
> user replication to local servers. Micro$oft and win2k AD support a
> proprietary version of kerberos though AFAIK, not ssl. The most recent
> verison of samba (2.2.1a) may have finally fixed login from win2k
> machines but in no way fully supports all aspects of win2k and AD - NT
> style domains aren't even fully supported yet (BDC etc). Hope this helps
> some but I'm not really clear on what you're looking to accomplish. Are
> you looking for actual interoperation with AD (I'd be interested in
> that) or just similar function apart from it.
>