On 4/22/2014 3:02 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 4/22/2014 11:52 AM, Steve Campbell wrote: >> But do the workgroups have their own login scripts on the server? That's >> sort of been the difference between using workgroups and domains, at >> least from any readings I've done so far. We actually break the >> "workgroups/domains" down into departmental groups. > workgroups are just groupings of peer hosts for the 'network > neighborhood' view. nothing more or less. most importantly, they > don't include any 'server' or centralized authentication, thats what > Active Directory provides. > > In Microsoft's Active Directory, you put users and systems in "OU" > (Organizational Units), and each OU can have group policies and those > policies can specify login scripts, these can do things like map network > drives for users. Presumably, Samba's implementation of AD offers a > similar facility, but I don't think the domain management tools in Samba > are anywhere near as well integrated or full featured as what you get > with a Windows Server system. Another samba 4 advantage, I think: You can load and use Windows Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) to manage the domains. How completely? Time will tell. steve > > > >