hi Eric!
> Currently, my two internal dns boxes are running FreeBSD. I'm looking
> for input on any experiences you might have had integrating Linux
> into the Open Directory architecture. I would really like to
> maintain all users on my OD Master without futzing with the
> Netware-to-Mac stuff. Thoughts?
[ the realy easy way is using winblows true... and who knows what you
gonna do when you want to merge your users to the new Xserve... ]
I have a FreeBSD box running at home for testing and basic fileserver
needs of my two Macs and another Wintel box. Netatalk 2.0 is realy a
nice guy and fully supports AFP3.1. For my personal needs, great stuff.
On the other hand for servers I would favor Linuxes, as it has way much
more attention from the big dotcoms with the 2 or 3 big letters.
For Winblows boxes simulating an AD controller is pain, athough
possible and a nice thingy when Samba 4 arrives.
For the Mac clients LDAP/Kerberos isn't a problem in first place. Apple
realy did some great thing when choosing for OpenLDAP and MIT Kerberos.
For my testing it most of the time was possible to even copy
configuration between a MacOSX Server and a Linux box. A bit
problematic is the Mac-specific settings which you will have to add to
a standard OD schema to make it fully compliant. And that's where the
fun starts, as Apple is know to switch/tweak directory structure with
every major version update.
Have some try on a standard OD LDAP schemas and have a Mac authenticate
against it. I had it basically working using my Panther client late
last year. For corporate things I have an OSX server running, which
just simply works :)
best regards,
Philon
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