Active Directory tools and linux?

[scott at MIT.EDU (Scott Ehrlich)]

I'm looking for the functionality of Microsoft's Adminpak program, which 
provides some utilities, such as AD Users and Computers, which permits 
manipulation of user accounts and Computers within an AD environment.

Thanks.

Scott

On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Matthew Gillen wrote:

> Scott Ehrlich wrote:
>> Microsoft produces a product called adminpak.exe which will install
>> tools to access an Active Directory environment.   Are there any such
>> equivalent tools in the Redhat/Linux world?
>
> It's not clear what you mean exactly by "access an Active Directory
> environment", since AD is really just an LDAP instance.  Do you mean you want
> to tinker with the contents of the Active Directory?  Or mount CIFS shares
> that need AD-based authentication?
>
> Either way, 'yum install samba-client' will probably get you what you need.
> If you want your linux box to be a backup Domain Controller, you'll want to
> 'yum install samba system-config-samba' too.
>
> Or are you asking if there file-server tools for non-windoze server/client (ie
> a GUI config for an NFS server)?
>
> Matt
>

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