[K12OSN] smb, active directory,home dir

[Nathan Sinton]

With smbldap is it possible to use group policies and/or deploy msi's
like what can be done with AD?  I rely heavily on both of these to
manage my Windows boxes and probably couldn't do without them.


On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 11:02:20 -0500, Mark Gumprecht <gumprechtm at msln.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> Burroughs, Henry wrote:
> 
> >Mark,
> >
> >I'm moving in that direction too.  AD speaks ldap, so you could export information into LDIF format.
> >
> Thanks for that info, export should speed conversion. I played with
> export before.. as a text file. But that was a while ago.
> 
> > I've added a custom schema to my AD so I have unix attributes... so I currently do LDAP/kerberos authentication against AD (which means I want to export all my unix info from AD, and shove it into openLdap so I don't have to re-permission everything).
> >
> >Do you use exchange?  I unfortunately do, and I either will move to open-xchange, SUSE open-exchange,
> >
> I do not use exchange and currently do not maintain a mail server. I
> have wanted to checkout open groupware, but have not gotten there yet.
> I had a primary domain controller crash a few months back and it wasn't
> pretty. I had 3 valid backups, but the junction points would not restore
> in the AD. I now maintain a current system state BU with the native BU
> utility which will restore properly. I had to start all over and recover
> all the files (permissions) by hand. I do not care to redo that again.
> 
> >Groupwise, or ::shudders:: keep exchange and  create a small AD domain that does a NT domain trust of the samba domain (it has been done before, I've seen some postings on the Net somewhere).
> >
> >You will have to reset all the passords, as I know of no way to retrieve them from the abyss of AD.
> >
> >Henry
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From:  Mark Gumprecht [mailto:gumprechtm at msln.net]
> >Sent:  Thu 3/17/2005 8:09 AM
> >To:    Support list for opensource software in schools.
> >Cc:
> >Subject:       [K12OSN] smb, active directory,home dir
> >Does anyone have or know of a writeup on how to get away from AD to
> >samba/ldap and how to direct a K12LTSP to a home/roaming profiles
> >server. The more I learn about AD, The more I lose sleep.
> >Mark
> >
> >
> >
> 
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> Mark Gumprecht
> Data Systems Specialist
> MSAD3
> Unity, ME
> gumprechtm at msln.net
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