[KLUG Members] ldap, kerberos and samba

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> We are looking at changing our domain controller from NT4 to something
> more recent like active directory OR ldap, kerberos and samba.  There
> are two issues we need to address.
> Group polices.  Something I don't currently use but it is in the must
> have category.  Are there ways to establish group policies using LDAP??

Policies work (as in poledit.exe) but not GPOs (yet).

> Citrix connections:  Apparently M$ bites again and uses the same
> connection for ALL users on a machine to connect to a share.  Then the
> only workaround is to create a share for each user for each share on a
> citrix server to connect to.  What a pain.

Bzzzzt! :)  Good news; we have 2000TSE and with Samba 3.0.7 this works.

> Just looking for any comments like policies are possible by .. and that
> bug was fixed in version x.xx

What specifically do you want to drive/control?  I've got some hacks in
the works.