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qwertyiopqwertyiop Member Posts: 725 ■■■□□□□□□□
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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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    demonfurbiedemonfurbie Member Posts: 1,819
    Redhat has a nice ldap built in
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    qwertyiopqwertyiop Member Posts: 725 ■■■□□□□□□□
    demonfurbie wrote: »
    Redhat has a nice ldap built in

    Is that the same 389 Directory Server?
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    demonfurbiedemonfurbie Member Posts: 1,819
    qwertyiop wrote: »
    Is that the same 389 Directory Server?


    yes .....
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    qwertyiopqwertyiop Member Posts: 725 ■■■□□□□□□□
    demonfurbie wrote: »
    yes .....

    Has anyone on here deployed and or used this?

    How does it integrate with a mostly windows network?
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    powerfoolpowerfool Member Posts: 1,666 ■■■■■■■■□□
    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.
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    demonfurbiedemonfurbie Member Posts: 1,819
    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
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    RTmarcRTmarc Member Posts: 1,082 ■■■□□□□□□□
    Out of curiosity, what's wrong with AD?
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    qwertyiopqwertyiop Member Posts: 725 ■■■□□□□□□□
    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.
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