[Ilugc] To replace windows 2003 server

[Arun Khan]

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 8:11 PM, Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan at gmail.com> wrote:
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> This can be done by setting up samba server.
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>>Five users are configures as roaming users.This is current
>> setup.
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> I think , this can be done by setting LDAP.

Yes, this can be done by configuring Samba server to do "ldapsam"

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> You can do authentication.
> But can not have the remote control
> over the clients, setting the clients permissions etc.

I am not sure what you mean by this; if you are alluding to ACLs to
resources then one needs to integrate Kerberos.   LDAP+Kerberos can
give you single sign on (SSO).  Of course it will not be the same as
MS-ADS since MS has added prop. extensions to LDAP+Kerberos.

-- Arun Khan