25 Jul
2007
25 Jul
'07
1:31 p.m.
Alexander Georgiev wrote:
Basically, the Samba that comes with CentOS-4 or CentOS-5 can do a WindowsNT type domain via LDAP. You can connect Windows servers and Clients (2000, 2003, XP ... not sure about vista) to this kind of domain and share printers, file servers, etc.
LDAP is not a requirement.
Right .. it is not strictly a requirement to use LDAP ... however, using ldap and smbldap-tools allows you to store more things in the directory server (addresses, phone, e-mail, etc.) than just NT domains alone and use that in an LDAP address book. It makes the domain control a little closer to AD.
When combined with a mail server solution like scalix or zimbra ... you have something close to AD / Exchange.