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RE: [PLUG] Microsoft/Active Directory
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> ok, I apologize for being confused; I forgot about NDS and
> thought groupwise subsumed it (I just skimmed the manual, sue
> me). MS-AD now includes the policy stuff too. so WTF is a
> "forest", anyway, lol
A forest is a collection of domain "trees", of course. :-)
And MS had policies even back in the NT Domain fays; they're just more
powerful when utilizing AD.
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> I thought LDAP was just a database protocol over tcp/ip, it
> would be nice if I
> could use it to manage some of the stuff that goes on in the
> office where my server lives, since I can't convince anyone
> to deploy a MS domain controller
> for me to play with. I mean, administer.
SAMBA can be an AD DC (Domain Controller) these days, I believe.
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