[olug] Samba roaming profiles

[Dan Linder]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Phil Brutsche <phil at brutsche.us> wrote:

> On paper yes, in practice no. Besides, those three pieces aren't the
> only pieces you need: you're missing the AD LDAP schema, a DNS server or
> two with support for SRV RRs, a huge number of RPC calls that Samba 3
> doesn't implement, etc. To say that an AD DC is merely an SMB server
> with LDAP and Kerberos is an oversimplification.


So, if a true Microsoft Windows Server 2003 system is needed to get the
bells and whistles of AD for WinXP/Vista clients, can you purchase a single
W2K3 server and setup Linux+Samba servers in remote locations for
authentication and local file/print serving?  Or are there still things
missing from Samba that would still make the systems reliant on the Win2K3
server?

Dan

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