Linux backend... Windows frontend

[VinylxScratches]

In the future I'd like to start up my own computer repair business.

One thing I'd like to do from the start is having LDAP and a fileserver where users accounts have permissions to access resources from Windows machines.

I was wondering if anyone here ever attempted this and if there's any out of the box solution? I found eBox but I don't really like it. It seems a little too out of the box.....

Any ideas?

 

[Emulex]

active directory works okay cross platform windows 2003 - but for the most part sucks with windows 2008/R2 - microsoft does this on purpose 🙂

i just use intel storage server (2003 or 2008) since it has iscsi/nfs/smb all in one - not particularly good at anything but active directory is flawless.

 

[VinylxScratches]

I don't want to use AD though 🙁 It's really easy to setup but I don't want to pay money for the OS.

 

[Nothinman]

Ignore LDAP and just use Samba. What benefits were you looking to get out of LDAP that Samba can't provide?

 

[VinylxScratches]

Will Samba allow me to add computers to the domain and a single location for accounts to sign onto computers?

 

[Nothinman]

Samba can emulate an NT4 PDC, so yes. Samba 4 is supposed to do full AD, but it's still in heavy development.