On Thursday 01 March 2007, Hans van der Merwe wrote:
On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 01:13 -0900, John Andersen wrote:
On Wednesday 28 February 2007, Hans van der Merwe wrote:
I'm not sure about AD, no-AD? Do I need it?
I have never found a use for AD or even Windows Domain controllers. Certainly never for a network that small.
Even where they are claimed to be of use (really large installations where people want to log into their desktop from any workstation) they don't work well enough for anyone to actually DO that. So everyone graduates from the Microsoft course and runs out an defines Domain controllers and Active Directory, only to burry themselves in a maintenance nightmare that doesn't meet its very reason for being.
I feel the same. What do you recommend?
For the size of installation you mentioned: Just Samba and cups on the server. A properly set up cups/samba combo will do it all, even provide drivers for every printer on your network. If it were considerably larger, I might look into ldap, but not till it got big enough to justify SLES, because SLES integrates ldap so well you never even need anything else. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen