Re: [Ambassadors] Fedora + Active Directory

[Dasun Lokuhetty]

Likewise can be use to integrate Linux with AD, but it requires some changes
to the schema of the AD, and that drops the Microsoft warranty out of the
door for that AD. therefore it'll not be a good enterprise solution,

Dasun

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On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Joe O'Dell
<joseph.odell(a)googlemail.com&gt;wrote:

>  Hey All,
>  Sorry for the delay in replying!
>
>  Likewise Open looks like a great way to accomplish this; I have let them
>  know, and they'll be testing it out soon.
>
>  Thanks!
>
>  Joe
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>  On 13 May 2010, at 12:43, Bertrand Juglas wrote:
>
>  > 2010/5/13 Scott Dowdle <dowdle(a)montanalinux.org&gt;:
>  >> Greetings,
>  >>
>  >> ----- Original Message -----
>  >>> Am Mittwoch, den 12.05.2010, 13:39 -0600 schrieb José Edgardo López
>  >>> Vásquez:
>  >>>> Please check this link: http://directory.fedoraproject.org/ and let
>  >>>> me know if you found the solution, have a nice day.
>  >>>
>  >>> The 389 directory server is too much in this case. It is for managing
>  >>> all kinds of authentications (one of them active directory), but here
>  >>> the file server just needs to be part of an already existing active
>  >>> directory. This is easy, it can be configured with authconfig(-gtk).
>  >>>
>  >>> Joe, try this HowTo:
>  >>> http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_%26_Active_Directory It deals
>  >>> with RHEL, so it also applies to Fedora.
>  >>>
>  >>> Regards,
>  >>> Christoph
>  >>
>  >> There is also Likewise Open (
>
> http://www.likewise.com/products/likewise_open/).<http://www.likewise.....
>  which is not part of Fedora... but a third-party app available for Fedora.
>   I thought there was a package in Fedora for the same thing but I can't seem
>  to locate it at the moment.
>  >
>  > I've tried Likewise Open in a previous version of Fedora and it worked
>  > very well and by just installing the rpm and following the GUI wizard
>  > on the desktop i wanted to integrate. So i would recommend it.
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