<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Thank Joel!</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div>Here is the setup:</div><div><br></div><div>Have a MS Windows Server 2008 R2 from another company which got bought...</div><div>originally setup to do email, AD, PDC, DNS etc..</div><div>( it is no longer doing email )</div><div><br></div><div>since the domain is different, CTO/CIO was looking at replacing it</div><div>with a linux AD ...</div><div><br></div><div>so my options</div><div><br></div><div>1) Make MS Windows Server 2008 R2 into AD, PDC, ...</div><div>( and I guess LDAP for the linux clients )</div><div><br></div><div>I do not think they have a second MS Server License...</div><div>( if they do it would be a win2003 server ) so I am not certain</div><div>about being about to setup a secondary domain
controller<br></div><div><br></div><div>Setup linux servers to pull login info for users from MS Win2008 server..</div><div><br></div><div>2) Setup a linux server as AD/LDAP server...</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>What do you guys think?</div><div><br></div><div>thanks <br></div><div>matti</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Junaid A <junaidjan@yahoo.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> 'SGVLUG Discussion List.' <sgvlug@sgvlug.net>; sgvlug@sgvlug.org <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, April 25, 2012 5:10 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [SGVLUG] Active Directory and linux<br> </font> </div> <br>
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