Re: Flexbeta Review : setting up SLES as a PDC without touching CLI

Le Lundi 28 Mars 2005 22:22, FACORAT Fabrice a =E9crit=A0:
> http://www.flexbeta.net/main/printarticle.php?id=3D88
>
> This review show how to setup SLES as a Primary Domain controler without
> using CLI.
> It shows how to setup OpenLDAP, SAMBA, dynamic DNS server, DHCP server (
> which will update DNS records ). It also show how to manage user accounts
> and profile.

Here my opinion on this tool as sysadmin:
samba3 isn't capable of managing an AD domaine  for the moment. So all what=
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present in this review is something about an hybrid setup, between NT4 and =
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AD domain. Looking at screenshots and what's asked and modifiable, this is=
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useless, as a NT4 domain: An admin want to manage its computers with reals=
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tools, and AD provide good way to handle operations, like installing a=20
software on a subgroup of the domain, delegating right on some users on a=20
computer, or changing remotely permissions on local disk on workstation.

If Mandrakelinux wat a real added value, add XAD(1) , yes not open source, =
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free, but it can remplace correctly all windows domain controllers with=20
linux. Or prepare some works for the future samba4 which will probably do=20
what is needed.

Emmanuel


(1) XAD: http://www.padl.com/Products/XAD.html