AD Alternatives

As some of you might now I was recently offered a IT Manager position where I would be tasked with building this company's infrastructure from the ground up.

As of now they dont have anyform of user management or directory services so I was wondering what you guys have used and how it compares to AD.

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demonfurbie

Redhat has a nice ldap built in

qwertyiop

demonfurbie wrote: »

Redhat has a nice ldap built in

Is that the same 389 Directory Server?

demonfurbie

qwertyiop wrote: »

Is that the same 389 Directory Server?

yes .....

qwertyiop

demonfurbie wrote: »

yes .....

Has anyone on here deployed and or used this?

How does it integrate with a mostly windows network?

powerfool

I have created my own Samba/OpenLDAP replacement for Active Directory. I used the official Samba documentation to do it. It has been three jobs ago, however, and many years.

demonfurbie

the best bet for you is to setup a small lab try it out, see if you like it

ive set ones up on a small need (less than 50 users) and it worked quite well

RTmarc

Out of curiosity, what's wrong with AD?

qwertyiop

It not that their is something wrong with it but that im considering implementing it at my new job and wanted to put together a proposal together. I actually like Samba4 and from what ive been reading they are hoping to finish it late 2011 or 2012 but then again they have been working on this for many years now.