Linux as a Secondary Domain Controller?

[gamingguy27]

Hello All,

I wanted to ask you all a question,

I work at a school and funds are always tight, it would be nice to replace one of our domain controllers with a simple Linux box.

The idea is to keep the main server (Windows 2003, 2008 soon) as the GC, then have additional domain controllers as Linux boxes.

I have a box ready to go with Samba, not really sure what to do though.

Regards.

Alex.

 

[gamingguy27]

Hello again,

I've been trying to get it to work for a couple of days now, and I'm much closer.

The only thing I'm stuggling with is Kerberos authentication, if anyone has any active directory experience it would be appriciated!

Regards,

Alex.

 

[Justin]

What are you using AD for? User authentication only? User permissions control? Login scripts? etc? What's the scope of your deployment?

 

[gamingguy27]

Hello,

Thanks for the response, at the moment the domain controller this linux box will be replacing does the whole lot. Log on / off scripts, authentication, permissions, it'll most likely be running on one of our older 8 core xeon machines (so pleanty of horsepower for linix).

Currently there are around 500 computers on site, we have a primary domain controller whos only role is to sevice log ons, but a secondary linux box would ease the strain!

I've been using the samba packages and sadms to attempt registering it as a secondary domain controller. As I said previously, it struggles to do the Kerboros authentication bit.

Regards,

Alex.