[CentOS] Re: Using CentOS as a file server on a win2K domain

Wed Jul 27 20:13:33 UTC 2005
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 14:22, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> > I know, but I don't want to manage users on 2 servers...
> > What helps with that? Winbind?
> 
> PREABMLE:  The fact that you have chosen Exchange 2000 means
> you are _stuck_ with Active Directory Services (ADS).  Unless
> you want to chuck Exchange, you are _stuck_ with keeping your
> ADS.

You use 'chosen' above as to suggest that there are equivalent
alternatives.  Are there -  for an organization that lives
and dies by the scheduling features and shared folders in exchange?

> - Winbind
> - Simultaneous ADS and NsDS
> - ADS-NsDS Synchronization

Is there some reason you omitted SFU from this list?  Recently you
said it would work in a similar situation to act as an NIS server
with the Linux boxes as NIS clients.  And by the way, does anyone
know if there are any client license fees for the things provided
by SFU?

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com