Using Microsoft Active Directory as the primary Naming Service

From: Matthew Stier (Matthew.Stier_at_us.fujitsu.com)
Date: 09/08/05

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    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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