Re: Authenticate windows against OpenLDAP

[Imobach González Sosa <igonzalez@becarios.ulpgc.es>]

El Lunes, 23 de Agosto de 2004 12:55, escribió:
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> Imobach González Sosa wrote:
> | El Lunes, 23 de Agosto de 2004 11:50, escribió:
> |>Maybe this subject has been treated too many times in this list, but I've
> |>only found this thread
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> |>http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-software/200207/msg00687.html
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> |>and is two years old; so I'd like to update the information.
> |>
> |>The question is simple: can windows machines authenticate against a
> |>OpenLDAP server instead of Active Directory? I mean without using Samba.
> |
> | mmmm, maybe pGina is what I'm looking for:
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> | http://pgina.xpasystems.com/
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> I would much rather install one piece of softare on the server (samba)
> than install client software on hundreds of machines (even in the case
> of imaging machines), plus
> samba+openldap has more features than pgina will ever allow (think
> things like point-and-print driver installation).

Yes, you're right. I didn't read the pgina's documentation. It seems that 
samba is a better option. Maybe we could convince our boss to switch this 
windows server to linux ;-)

Thank you.

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