satyashil rane wrote on 22/04/2006 12:18: > Before anything else, I would like to thank all of you for giving such a > wonderfull information. > > Guys, > > My Objectives are as follows: > > 1) Set up an open source solution for Domain Controller (which I am sure > would be possible by installing Samba 3 and LDAP). It is possible. And to comment on Matthew Palmers recommendation of the LDAP Account Manager, I can also list GoSA (IIRC, it is listed on sourceforge), which I have used at a previous employer and really can recommend even though the documentation was rather sparse at that time (about 4 years back). > 2) There are 3 remote offices where I am planning to implement this > solution. So is there any way by which I can connect DC's at 3 different > offices and let them communicate with each other as PDC, BDC and Domain > Member? That should be possible, at the very least if you link the offices via VPN. Samba can act as a PDC and as a Domain Member. And it should be able to act as a BDC when the PDC is also Samba. > 3) How to enforce Security as well as Desktop policies using this kind > of solution or rather is it possible the way we can do it in Windows > Active Directory Services? I've never done that, so I can only recount what others said on this matter. Not to give any false statement, I refrain from doing so though. > Please give me your comments on above questions. > > Please note that, there will be Domain Controller which will be running > on Linux platform and the major user computers will be Windows XP. This is no problem at all for a Samba server. cu, sven
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