[CentOS] Anyone using CentOS Active Directory like system?

[Rob Townley]

Sorry, ctrl-enter (send right away) won ctrl-shift-v...

i used to love MS ADS, but do not love it much anymore and see that
there are other tools for the job.  There was not nearly enough
documentation on which target machines a particular group policy can
apply correctly to which version of windows (2000?, XP?, 7?, Vista?,
...).  When there was a problem, applying a policy there were many
different logfiles one had to parse thru to put together the problem.
 Most of those policies can be done with registry changes pushed out a
number of different ways.

Zarafa or Zentyal are projects to look at.

sernet.de/en/samba/  seems to have the most promising SaMBa binaries
and make an ISO image to download called "samba4app".  Described as
"Guided initial configuration of a Samba 4 Active Directory domain"
http://www.enterprisesamba.com/samba4app/

"Full support for managing Windows clients via group policies using
the Windows Remote Server Administration Tools."  Win7Pro or
Enterprise runs that tool.  It would be much less expensive to buy one
server license instead of multiple licenses and all those CALs.

Some wiki articles:
Setting up a new domain without existing ADS:
http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/HOWTO#Provisioning_Samba_.28Setting_up_a_new_domain.29

Join an existing ADS domain:
http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/HOWTO/Join_a_domain_as_a_DC

On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Rob Townley <rob.townley at gmail.com> wrote:
> sernet.de/en/samba/  seems to have the most promising SaMBa binaries
> and make an ISO image to download.  Described as "
> http://www.enterprisesamba.com/samba4app/
>
> Setting up a new domain without existing ADS:
> http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/HOWTO#Provisioning_Samba_.28Setting_up_a_new_domain.29
>
>
> http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/HOWTO/Join_a_domain_as_a_DC
>
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 12:50 PM, James A. Peltier <jpeltier at sfu.ca> wrote:
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> | I am the IT Development Specialist for a small community college and
>> | our
>> | CIO has asked me to explore an alternative to Microsoft Active
>> | Directory as
>> | we are separating from our parent university and funding is tight so
>> | we
>> | were looking into CentOS with 389 Directory Server.
>> |
>> | Any advise or suggestions would be very helpful.
>> |
>> | Jacob Tennant
>>
>> No, we use Active Directory because it's the right tool for the job.  I think that you will find that you will have a difficult time finding another product that will provide all the tools that AD provides when working with Windows.  If you are working with Windows and Windows only just use AD it's the "right thing".  If you're in a mixed bag of Windows, Mac and GNU/Linux, just use AD, it's likely still the "right thing".
>>
>> If you only need basic authentication than Samba will likely suit your needs.  On what scale are you talking?  2 workstations, 50 workstations, 100s workstations?
>>
>> --
>> James A. Peltier
>> Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group
>> Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus
>> Phone   : 778-782-6573
>> Fax     : 778-782-3045
>> E-Mail  : jpeltier at sfu.ca
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>>
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