----- Original Message ----- | Does anyone here use a Samba4 setup for single sign-on for MS_Win | workstations | and CentOS-6 boxes? Does anyone here use it for imap and/or smtp | authentication? We are experimenting with replacing our existing | Microsoft | domain controllers with Samba4 based controllers and are | contemplating moving | all authentication for all our systems, Microsoft and CentOS based, | over to | Samba when, or if, this replacement successfully completes. | | Does anyone have any references for using CentOS with Samba domain | controllers | that they can recommend? I have found some but the few I have found | tend to | be Samba3 specific. | | -- | *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** | James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB at Harte-Lyne.ca | Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca | 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 | Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 | Canada L8E 3C3 | | _______________________________________________ | CentOS mailing list | CentOS at centos.org | http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos | I would have to ask why you're doing such a thing in the first place? You have a perfectly good working Active Directory setup, that people are already familiar with, I suspect with existing MS clients which integrate fully (and "properly") and you want to replace it with a Samba based setup. Unless you have a relatively simple setup, I would say don't change. However, if you are looking to move to something else, then do that. Why fix to Samba? Why not go with a full on Kerberos/LDAP environment? FWIW, we use CentOS 6 with Active Directory Authorization. Things have worked fine for us for about 1 year. It took a VERY long time to get setup and working, but it is now. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpeltier at sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices "I want to inspire people. I want someone to say "because of you I didn't give up". - Chanda Kaushik