From: Matthew Stier (Matthew.Stier@us.fujitsu.com)
Date: Wed Sep 07 2005 - 18:14:48 EDT
Okay Folks,
I know I am talking sacrilege, but working at one of my companies remote
sites, I'm not exactly in a position to set corporate policy.
As with most companies, the corporate office is Microsoft-centric. We,
as a remote engineering facility, are Sun centric, with a minor
collection of Windows servers, still running NT4.
Corporate now wants to run Active Directory across all sites. This will
require us to replace these aging servers with (atleast a pair of) W2K3
servers.
We have always wanted to merge the naming services between platforms. I
am considered switching from a Sun centric NIS solution, to a Microsoft
centric solution using Active Directory with Services For Unix (SFU
3.5). That way I we can comply with corporate, support our Windows
desktops, support our Sun desktops, and provide LDAP services to
whatever application that needs it, all with a single source of
authentication. And to maintain support for non-LDAP systems, my
current NIS servers can function as NIS slaves for the SFU NIS master.
Anyone using AD/SFU in this way?
Any issues with it?
Any URL's to webpages on this subject?
Will this work?, or do I risk my podiatric digits?
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