Samba PDC/BDC

[Dan Jenkins]

Thomas Charron wrote:

>  On 1/16/06, Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com> wrote:
>
> > At this time, the integration of LDAP, Kerberos, and the missing
> > RPCs is not on the Samba development roadmap. If it is not on the
> > published roadmap, it cannot be delivered anytime soon. Ergo, ADS
> > server support is not a current goal for Samba development. The
> > Samba Team is most committed to permitting Samba to be a full ADS
> > Domain member that is increasingly capable of being managed using
> > Microsoft Windows MMC tools.
> >
>  Umm. Note the features in Samba 3.0:
>
>  *1) Active Directory support. Samba 3.0 is now able to ** join
>  a ADS realm as a member server and authenticate ** users using
>  LDAP/Kerberos. * I don't know if this is entirely acurate, as I
>  haven't tried it, ever, but that was one of the big points of Samba
>  3.

The operative word here is: member.
Samba 3.0 can join a Active Directory domain, but not act as a server 
for one.

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