Anton Aylward wrote:
Joachim Schrod said the following on 12/13/2010 02:12 PM:
Anton Aylward wrote:
What is it that they require from the Windows DHCP server that can't be supplied by the Linux DHCP server?
Most probably, integration with AD.
DNS is a prerequisite for Active Directory.Active Directory cannot be installed or configured without DNS. It really doesn't matter WHERE the DNS comes from.
??????? DNS != DHCP Nevertheless, it is also possible to run an AD infrastructure with a foreign DHCP server. It will just be *much* more work without any gain for the Windows side. That's why I wrote their reason is *integration* with AD, not AD itself.
Back when I worked alongside a Windows group they had a lot of the back end AD services implemented on *NIX machines for various reasons.
I take then, it that you have yourself never designed, realized, implemented, tested or run an AD infrastructure yourself? I have -- and AD is a highly interesting piece of infrastructure software where I haven't yet found its equal in the open source Linux world. (Group policies, integration of various directory related services, and ease of delegation are killer features, alone.) Yes, it's _possible_ to do as you wrote, but with a very high probability it's not _sensible_. Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod@acm.org Roedermark, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org