Linux Domain Controller/Resara Server

[Jon "maddog" Hall]

Ben,

As someone who has not touched a Microsoft anything for thirty years,
thank you for the explanation.

I think you all know how pragmatic I really am, so I understand people
"needing" Microsoft, and the need of SAs for this type of product, so I
agree with you in your analysis of "*Very* impressive".

Thanks again for the translation.

maddog

On Fri, 2012-01-27 at 14:47 -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Warren Luebkeman <warren at resara.com> wrote:
> > Yes, its an Active Directory DC, and can host FSMO roles.  Once you have the
> > domain setup, you can create/manage standard AD group policies via
> > Microsoft's group policy tools.
> 
>   *Very* impressive.  You can bet I'll be checking this out.  Thanks
> for the info.
> 
>   For those *nix-heads on the list wondering what all this
> gobbledygook is about:
> 
>   Active Directory (AD) is Microsoft's directory service.  It manages
> things like users, groups, email addresses, passwords, computers, etc.
>  It's vaguely LDAP based.  A Domain Controller (DC) is a server
> hosting the AD services.  In order to do just about anything with
> MS-Windows on a network at a business, you need AD.
> 
>   DCs are mostly peers.  The FSMO roles (Flexible Single Master
> Operation) are a handful of special tasks which need to be assigned to
> a single DC.  One is responsible for generating unique IDs, for
> example.
> 
>   Group Policy Objects (GPOs) are how Windows computers are managed.
> Pretty much everything about Windows management starts there.
> 
>   The ability to do the above means a Linux server can handle the
> proper care and feeding of Windows clients.
> 
> -- Ben
> 
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