[Discuss] Replacing AD with Samba4

Rich Pieri richard.pieri at gmail.com
Tue Aug 11 13:24:15 EDT 2015


On 8/11/2015 12:13 PM, Rich Braun wrote:
> I guess I didn't make it clear: this is my home LAN. My domain controllers
> exist solely to support a couple of Windows instances that run software that
> has yet to become available on Linux, and/or devices that want to communicate
> with SMB network shares.

No, this was not made clear.

Anyway, I'd look at an architecture overhaul because the full active 
directory stack seems like overkill. If the programs run with WINE then 
you can get rid of Windows entirely and with it SMB shares. Use Netatalk 
for the Macs and NFS for everything else.

-- 
Rich P.



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