On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 07:09 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
zen@allegro.pl wrote:
On Monday 23 July 2007 14:33:18 Adriatik Allamani wrote:
Hello
For the moment I manage the user in the network with win 2000 Server. I want to use an linux OS to manaxhe the network? Is this possible.
So. How can I organize and configure the Cent OS to use it as Active Directory or something like this, and to open all the existing users there, and then to shut down the win2000 Server and to Activate the CentOS as domain controller?
Can someone help me in this?
It really depends on what parts of AD are you using. To centralize user/password management and home directories OpenLDAP should be sufficient. But if you want to replace more sophisticated AD features (software deployment, etc.), ther is nothing good enough (and Open Source/Free) for Linux. If your environment is mostly Windows based, I'd stay with AD.
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.
The CentOS-5 samba can JOIN an active directory domain as a file server, but it can not be a domain controller.
If your interested in having a CentOS Samba server join an AD domain the following howto might be useful.
http://www.howtoforge.com/samba_ads_security_mode
Regards, Paul Berger