John Hearns wrote: > I have to confess my Google skills have failed me. > If I'm not wrong, there was a recent discussion in these parts re. using > Active Directory > with Linux. I think there was a commercial product mentioned, which was > quite good. > Can anyone remind me please?
You're probably thinking of Centrify or Likewise. Don't waste your money either of them. I looked closely at Likewise, and even started to implement it, but then abondoned it, because it doesn't allow you to assign UIDs and GIDs - it generates them on each client using a predictable, repeatable (is that redundant?) hash based on login name, so that there are no ID collisions across machines. The trust is that if you already have and AD installation and the AD controllers have Microsoft Services for Unix (MSSFU, or just SFU) 3.5 or later, you have everything you need to use your AD servers as Kerberos and LDAP masters for your Linux clients. I've successfully done it here on some test systems. It will be rolled out site-wide as soon as I get the time. Believe it or not, Microsoft has this all well-documented, and has very helpful website on the topic: http://blogs.msdn.com/sfu/ I even contacted support through this website, and got a very quickly (less than an hour, I think) If you want to go the other way around, have Linux serve as the AD controllers, you'll need to use Samba, and I haven't had much success with it. What is this world coming to? I'm actually recommending Windows for something! -- Prentice _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
