Linux Domain Controller/Resara Server

[Ken D'Ambrosio]

Two things to contribute:

1) To the best of my knowledge, Samba can currently act as an AD DC, but not as
a peer with a Windows DC.

2) Samba4 is coming -- yes, really.  While not as complete as people would
like, it's been a solid decade in the making, and they've pretty much decided
that releasing *something* beats eternal vaporware.  A really good writeup can
be seen at my personal favorite Linux news source, Linux Weekly News: 
http://lwn.net/Articles/475592/

-Ken

On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:47:28 -0500 Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> 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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