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[Marcos Barbosa <marcosestevesbarbosa@xxxxxxxxx>]

The Active Directory standard is LDAP plus Kerberos, this is correct?


2013/8/27 David Burke <dmbst32@xxxxxxxxx>

> Sorry I missed it. Just watching it now.
>
> I can tell you about my experience with central authentication outside of
> Active Directory. I've tried out Zentyal 3.0 with Samba4 in two use cases
> recently.
>
> 1. Joining an existing Active Directory domain as an additional domain
> controller. This was an interesting experiment but I have to suggest not
> doing this. It quickly got out of sync with our other domain controllers.
> Aside from this it's very slow, for example just navigating the directory
> tree from a Windows client is very slow compared to AD. I tried running a
> samba print server on it but found it a painful experience. Many features
> just don't work such as listing printers in a directory. We killed off the
> server after a month.
> 2. Lone Zentyal server. I haven't had as many issues here and it is in
> production usage. This is a mostly Linux environment so we are using CUPS
> instead of samba printing. The free version I'm using is less reliable than
> Active Directory. Updates often break things. It requires considerable
> Linux sys admin knowledge when the gui breaks. I believe their paid version
> has a different repository that is more well tested. Overall I would say
> Zentyal is easier to manage than pure openldap, but not nearly as stable or
> feature complete as MS Active Directory. One reason we migrated to samba4
> here was to use pam_winbind instead of pam_ldap. I find pam_ldap with
> cached credentials to be highly unreliable. Kerberos ticketing is also nice.
>
> Would love to hear any stories of using Samba4, directory 389, etc. I'm
> hoping samba4 matures enough by the time Server 2003 support ends.
>
> Best,
> David Burke
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 2:00 AM, Bolesław Tokarski <
> boleslaw.tokarski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
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