[itdiscuss] Linux Domain Controller

[Bryson Medlock]

Bill, I've done this several times before.  It can be a bit tricky if you
don't read through all the documentation, but Samba has some examples on
their site that walk you through the process.
http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/samba-pdc.html
 There
are GUI's available for various tasks.  Basically, you get all the
functionality of a Windows NT 4 PDC.  No Active Directory as of yet.  But
you can use NT 4 tools for managing users and groups.  You can also setup
system policies, though no group policies.Samba is working on version 4
which is supposed to give you Active Directory, but it's still in alpha
stage.  They claim what is finished is stable, it's just all the features
aren't finished yet.  http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4
<http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4>Let me know if you have any more
questions.

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 7:48 AM, <blloyd at buskercom.com> wrote:

>  Has anyone succeeded in creating a Windows DC with a Linux box?  If so,
> what did you use?  How complicated was it?  Does it have a GUI interface?
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