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Network services appliance

Page last modified 23:49, 12 May 2009 by Liraz | Page History
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Samba can be used as a domain controller but configuring such a beast is really hard work. A general network services appliance preconfigured as a drop in replacement for a windows domain controller and general authentication server would be really useful.

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I've heard Samba4 will have native support to be a 2k3'ish DC. I'm working more and more w/ OpenLDAP to act as a proxy for other LDAP servers like AD, so I'll help out where I can. Also look into other LDAP servers like OpenDS, Penrose, Fedora DS and maybe even Sun One, (its free but only has binaries for MS and RPM based distos). Mabe even incorporate items like phpLDAPadmin as the webui or bundle jXplorer considering its a desktop app that runs on Linux and Windows.
-- Patrick

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cavan says:
I note that there has been no activity on this one for about a year but my feeling is that this is a key feature that would add benefit to all the other turnkey appliances. What would be necessary to get this bumped up the priority list?
Posted 00:06, 3 May 2010
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LArnold says:
Though AD is a real pain in many ways it does generally make it easy to work within a network of computers. Samba 4 sounds interesting. I have been using Samba Ap..
In MS AD what I don't like are NTFS permissions propagating and locking down various files and directories even when storage is directly mounted. Also, the recomendation that DC's not be virtualized means that single purpose machines often need to be run simply for redundancy..

A multi DC Samba sounds great.
Posted 16:57, 19 Nov 2011
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