How about the other Linux OS? Feodora is able to serve AD? Regards Adriatik Allamani On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 09:41 +0200, Andreas Rogge wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 25.07.2007, 09:05 +0200 schrieb Adriatik Allamani: > > Thanks a lot for the help. > > > > Actually I am interested in using CentOS as Server for the AD and not to > > join the CentOS to AD. > > I'm really sorry to tell you, but CentOS is unable to serve something > like AD. The only thing that CentOS can do is serve a NT 4.0 style > domain with Samba, but that lacks many of the AD-Features. > For example you won't get kerberos or a real directory service. There is > actually a method to run group policies with samba, but this requires a > software that must be licensed for every windows pc. > > If you're sure that you only need the NT4-features you can migrate, > however I don't think you can use CentOS/samba as a drop-in replacement, > because you'd have to rejoin the domain so the clients realize it isn't > AD anymore. > > Regards, > Andreas Rogge > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos