On Tue, April 22, 2014 15:02, John R Pierce wrote: > > In Microsoft's Active Directory, you put users and systems in "OU" > (Organizational Units), and each OU can have group policies and those > policies can specify login scripts, these can do things like map network > drives for users. Presumably, Samba's implementation of AD offers a > similar facility, but I don't think the domain management tools in Samba > are anywhere near as well integrated or full featured as what you get > with a Windows Server system. >From what I have read on the subject the recommended path for Samba4 management is to install MicroSoft's Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows X package, where X is whatever version of MS-Windows you run as a domain member workstation client. Earlier forms of the software were called Windows Server Y Administrative Tools Pack where Y refers to the server version (2000, 2003, etc.) -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB at Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3