[CoLoCo] Jeff LePage - Migrating from AD to Samba (David L. Willson)

[Kevin Fries]

Look at LDAP and GOsa (both in the Repositories) as an alternative.  If
you are not going to transition, but instead rebuild, its a decent
alternative.  It even allows you the ABILITY to delegate user
administration to non-technical types and managers.

HTH

 
-  
Kevin Fries
Senior Linux Engineer
Computer and Communications Technology, Inc
A Division of Japan Communications Inc.


On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 14:10 -0700, Jeffrey LePage wrote:
> David,
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> You said...
> >Here's another article about AD and Samba.  This one is more about >interoperating with
> >AD, but includes references to CSVDE (CSV Directory Export) which might be >very useful
> >in your project
> ...but the link didn't make it.
> 
> As for converting between my Win2k3 DC and Samba, one big reason to convert is that the win2k3 in question is extremely flaky.  It's strangely slow (too slow to be explained by the hardware and the load), and it tends to lock everyone's accounts occasionally for no adequately explained reason.  Usually we have to hit the reset button to get it to behave.  
> 
> The thing is, I don't _really_ want to replicate the Win2k3 active directory stuff.  All I want is to be able to provide 
> 1) unified login (preferably OS-agnostic)
> 2) network storage with login authentication
> And I want to be able to do this without having to enter data for all 300 users by hand.  
> 
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