I have a hypothetically question about Tiger server, OpenLDAP, and
Active Directory (Windows server 2003). First a little background on
my setup. I have a current system running Panther and there is also a
Windows 2003 server that is looked after by someone else. Neither of
the servers talk to each other and we both have our own authentication
servers. Lets say I have a XRaid connected to what will be a Tiger
server and I create a folder on it to use as a share point that is
shared via SMB. I'm going to set the share up so that the gentleman
who looks after the Windows server will be able to auto-mount it (map
to it) for his users. Now, here's my question. Under Tiger, if I have
this share that he can map to, once it mounts on his users desktops,
can everything that is created by the Windows users within that share,
be governed by his Active directory and ACL's from his servers
including permissions? I realize that something like XSan would
probably go a long way to doing just that, but unfortunately that is at
least a year off.
I have downloaded the Open Directory Admin. PDF and I am currently
searching the web for examples and white pages on doing this, but I
wanted to ask the people who post to this list and see what they
thought about it. I have also reached a critical point at work where
the Windows admin is pushing to set up single sign on for all the
machines at work, and he naturally wants to do it through AD, as
opposed to using OpenLDAP as I have proposed so I am trying to come up
with really good reasons to use OpenLDAP instead of AD.
Thank you very much in advance for any and all help.
