[KLUG Members] LDAP & AD?

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> Our Engineering department is looking to buy a package which claims to
> _require_ Active Directory.  They say it will NOT WORK with any other
> LDAP server, commercial or open source.  They come right out and say
> that it will "not work", as opposed to "it's not supported with any
> other LDAP server".>
> Are they feeding me a line of crap, or are there really features that AD
> has, which no other LDAP server can do?

AD implements a bunch of M$-RPC stuff that is outside of LDAP (AD isn't really
an LDAP server in the strictest sense).  So it is possible that their 
statement
is true.  Samba4 however implements pretty close to everything,  Samba4 
contains
its own DSA (which like AD, is an LDAP server 'plus').


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Adam Tauno Williams - http://www.whitemice.org