[CentOS] Re: SMB server with CentOS 4

Wed Dec 7 14:06:09 UTC 2005
Feizhou <feizhou at graffiti.net>

> 
> It can _replace_ a native W2K ADS DC as of Samba 3.0, or be its "bitch"
> -- i.e., a "member server" in a native W2K ADS domain.  It can't,
> however, be a peer DC to a native W2K ADS DC, and it probably never
> will, at least completely.

Please explain this from the Samba Official Howto:

"Samba-3 is not, and cannot act as, an Active Directory server. It 
cannot truly function as an Active Directory PDC"


Are you saying that you can integrate Samba 3.0 with a Kerberos server 
implementation, a LDAP server implementation and dns to give a 
half-cooked (forget Exchange, blah) but functional ADS DC to host a ADS 
domain for Windows XP clients to logon to?