[CentOS] RE: Using CentOS as a file server on a win2K domain--nothing to do with alternatives
Robert Hanson
roberth at abbacomm.net
Fri Jul 29 15:34:10 UTC 2005
} Les Mikesell
} Subject: Re: [CentOS] RE: Using CentOS as a file server on a win2K domain-
} -nothing to do with alternatives
}
} On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 07:01, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
} >
} > 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.
}
} --
} Les Mikesell
} lesmikesell at gmail.com
maybe i asked the original question improperly and im almost sure this one
isnt posed perfectly either.
what do really large companies use that do not allow or have 100% migrated
away from "M$ windows servers" in their networks yet allow "windows clients"
in their networks "and" must service all their windows clients needs just as
*if* their were M$ servers on their networks?
does this make better sense?
i believe this is what everyone is getting at in all these threads and yet
there appears to be no 100% functional open source solution right now, is
there?
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Robert Hanson
Abba Communications
http://www.abbacomm.net
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