[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').
> What's the state of Samba4 now?  Usable?

I set it up for kicks awhile ago and it "worked".  I didn't do much with
it,  I was just poking around.  It didn't get as far as making it a
subordinate partition via back-ldap/referral within an OpenLDAP rooted
tree.... other stuff just came up.

Does this wierdo package use AD for the license management, preferences,
or what?  Having an *application* welded to a specific DSA seems quite
odd.

> I've looked at a few other LDAP servers, even thought they claim none
> work with their package.  
> FWIW, other LDAP servers that I would consider:
>   Redhat Directory Server (formally Netscape?)

Supports fewer extended operations than OpenLDAP 2.3

>   Novell's

No idea.

>   MAC OS-X Server's

Is OpenLDAP.

> Other ones I looked at and would rather run AD:
>   IBM (DB2 backend)

Is these even a maintained product anymore?  I thought this was
mothballed.

>   Sun (no desire to add another Unix)

SunOne?  This thing sucks.
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