Re: Debian-LAN: installing a complete network environment

2013-10-04 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
I've been working with both Kerberos and Samba for 20 years. Writing "Yet Another Authentication Management Tool(tm)" sounds unappealing, since there are so many well established and tested ones. I'm actually curious what you found inadequate about Samba, especially if you used the 4.0.x releases w

Re: Debian-LAN: installing a complete network environment

2013-10-04 Thread Darko Gavrilovic
On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 9:28 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > Sorry to rain on the parade, but Samba's been pretty good at this since > Samba was invented in the early 1990's, and it's pretty stable. It also > plays nicely with other well known network clients and protocols, such as > Windows based

Re: Debian-LAN: installing a complete network environment

2013-10-04 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
Wait, I know? L:et's have it do dynamic DNS, host authentication, and LDAP based account management, too! And in 20 years, maybe it'll have 1/1000th the number of users that the Samba suite has right now, for all of that, especially including robust and tested Kerberos management with already teste