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List:       fedora-directory-users
Subject:    Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Fedora Directry as a domain controller
From:       "Josh Kelley" <joshkel () gmail ! com>
Date:       2007-03-30 15:21:31
Message-ID: 97cbd1a90703300821w222bafc2ua4f1a21b883215fc () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 3/27/07, Peter Biggerstaff <peter.biggerstaff@healthalliance.co.nz>
wrote:
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>  Is it possible to use Fedora DS as a windows PDC? so I can manage windows
> and Linux clients from the same directory?
>

FDS by itself cannot serve as a Windows PDC; that's well outside the scope
of what it's designed to do.

Samba is designed to service as an (Windows NT 4-style) PDC.  It needs to
store information about Windows users and clients somehow, and FDS makes an
excellent backend for storing this data for Samba.

The Samba HOWTO Collection and Samba-3 By Example (both of which are on
Samba's web site) contain more information about how to set this up.

Josh Kelley

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Is it possible to use Fedora DS as a windows PDC? so I can manage windows and Linux \
clients from the same directory?<br> </div></blockquote></div><br>FDS by itself \
cannot serve as a Windows PDC; that&#39;s well outside the scope of what it&#39;s \
designed to do.<br><br>Samba is designed to service as an (Windows NT 4-style) \
PDC.&nbsp; It needs to store information about Windows users and clients somehow, and \
FDS makes an excellent backend for storing this data for Samba. <br><br>The Samba \
HOWTO Collection and Samba-3 By Example (both of which are on Samba&#39;s web site) \
contain more information about how to set this up.<br><br>Josh Kelley<br>



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