[CentOS] RE: Using CentOS as a file server on a win2K domain-- nothing to do with alternatives

[Les Mikesell]

On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 07:01, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> > please excuse my extreme lack of specific knowledge on this subject, yet
> > what are large companies using that are not using on the M$ server side?
> 
> Excluding Novell eDirectory (fka NDS) from considerations, _every_
> Fortune 100 company I've been at either uses a NsDS based tree
> (including Sun One) for their enterprise, and syncs ADS to/from it, or
> segments with another LDAP solution (e.g., Netegrity, many others).  The
> NsDS or other LDAP solution almost _always_ pre-dates ADS adoption,
> simply because it was necessary to manage countless numbers of users and
> systems.

Back up a step and I think you'd find that those companies had mainframe
X.500 systems that predate any PC or unix implementations because at the
time only a mainframe had the necessary capacity.  Some may still be
running the master copy on mainframes.  Remember that the L in LDAP
means 'lightweight' which only makes sense in comparison to X.500, and
that from the start LDAP was designed to work as a tcp front end query
mechanism to X.500 directories as well as a standalone database for
smaller systems.

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  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell at gmail.com