Freebsd 6.1 Samba 3 as a PDC not using ldap

[Andrew Pantyukhin]

On 6/24/06, Atom Powers <atom.powers at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/23/06, Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 6/24/06, Godfrey <godfreylists at compudoc.za.org> wrote:
> > > Hello
> > >
> > > I am looking for help with running SAMBA 3 as a PDC on Freebsd 6.1
> >
> > Samba 3 can not run as a PDC, only Samba 4 can do that,
> > but it hasn't been released yet.
>
> Incorrect.
> Samba 3 is perfectly suitable as a NT4 style PDC.
> Unless you meant that it can not run as an Active Directory domain
> controller, which would be correct; but even WinXP Pro is happy as a
> domain member of an NT4 style domain. The only things you don't get
> are enhanced user, machine policy configurations; but even that isn't
> too hard to fake with the WinXP Resource Kit.

Sorry. You're right of course.