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  From: Glen Turner <glen.turner@aarnet.edu.au>
  To  : linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
  Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 00:33:30 +1030

Re: Linux as an NT Server replacement

Andrew Duxorth wrote:
> 
> Active directory is windows trying to put all objects (computer related)
> relating to your organisation into a easily accessable, replacatable (I
> hope I spelt that right) and so forth.  it contains users, groups, settings
> for machines and devices (ie printers), policys and odles and oodles of
> stuff (most of course useless).

And this is a good idea.  Novell has done it for ages, and it works
very well in networks with more than about 20 people.

Linux isn't quite there yet.  For example, none of the access control
list projects allow the ACL to be fetched from LDAP.  Similarly for disk
quotas (which are still 16 bit).


> the LDAP extentions that MS has put into the AD is so that you can use your
> active directory structure instead of using a seperate structure for LDAP.

Which is *exactly* my issue with MS.  There's only one way, the
Microsoft way.  We'll do LDAP, but AD had better be at the centre
of your naming universe for it to work.