[Wolves] Samba as an Active Directory server

[Old Dan]

Chris Ball wrote:
>> Stuart Langridge wrote:
>>
>>> Is it possible to use Samba as an Active Directory server so that 
>>> things that need to auth against an AD server can auth against a 
>>> Samba box? I'm not sure whether this is for an environment with some 
>>> AD servers already, or one with no AD at all. If it is, can someone 
>>> point me[1] at some resources on how? The Samba docs are...lacking.
>>>
> 
> Samba 3 and LDAP can act as a AD server i'm sure... 
No.  No it can't.  It can interoperate with AD servers, but not act as one.

Believe me, I've looked into this and I know all too well.

there's a lot of
> documents to replace you PDC with Samba, so it shouldn't be to hard..
That's a Domain controller.  Different kettle of fish.

> infact it's harder to get Samba to interact with AD PDC, scarily so.. i 
> lost a month of my life to that
An AD server is NOT A PDC.  'K?

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Dan