Fedora directory users - Jul 2005 - FDS support for Windows?

I was wondering if the Fedora Directory Server supports Windows clients? I
didn''t see anything on the site about it. Sorry if it''s there
and I just missed it.

Joshua Kampmeier wrote:
>I was wondering if the Fedora Directory Server supports Windows clients? I
didn''t see anything on the site about it. Sorry if it''s there
and I just missed it.
>  
>
FDS is an LDAP server : so it supports any LDAP client, which would of 
course
include software running on the Windows OS. But I suspect that isn''t 
your real question.
Are you asking if it''s possible to use FDS for Microsoft''s
user and
machine authentication
mechanisms, as a drop-in replacement for their Active Directory ? If so 
the answer is no,
because those mechanisms use additional protocols beyond standard LDAP. 
It should be possible to
achieve AD-replacement with the new Samba4 and FDS as a back-end but
AFAIK that project is still in development.

David Boreham wrote:
> Joshua Kampmeier wrote:
>
>> I was wondering if the Fedora Directory Server supports Windows 
>> clients? I didn''t see anything on the site about it. Sorry if
it''s
>> there and I just missed it.
>>  
>>
> FDS is an LDAP server : so it supports any LDAP client, which would of 
> course
> include software running on the Windows OS. But I suspect that
isn''t
> your real question.
> Are you asking if it''s possible to use FDS for
Microsoft''s user and
> machine authentication
> mechanisms, as a drop-in replacement for their Active Directory ? If 
> so the answer is no,
> because those mechanisms use additional protocols beyond standard 
> LDAP. It should be possible to
> achieve AD-replacement with the new Samba4 and FDS as a back-end but
> AFAIK that project is still in development.
>
Though, using Samba3 as an nt4 domain controller works fine.
>
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>> Though, using Samba3 as an nt4 domain controller works fine.
>
True, although one might be slightly concerned about continued MS support
for the NT4 protocols in the client.

Joshua Kampmeier wrote:
>I was wondering if the Fedora Directory Server supports Windows clients? I
didn''t see anything on the site about it. Sorry if it''s there
and I just missed it.
>
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>
Try pGina; http://pgina.xpasystems.com/info/
Plugins for windows client''s authentication layer..

I haven''t tried it myself, but I am sure I''ll be forced to do
so soon :(

/T

>>> Though, using Samba3 as an nt4 domain controller works fine.
>>
>True, although one might be slightly concerned about continued MS support
>for the NT4 protocols in the client.
At some point we will add support for FDS to our XAD identity
server, which supports native Active Directory clients.

(XAD presently uses OpenLDAP, with a large number of SLAPI
plugins.)

No idea on the schedule, though... :-)


cheers,

-- Luke

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Luke Howard wrote:
>>>>Though, using Samba3 as an nt4 domain controller works fine.
>>>>        
>>>>
>>True, although one might be slightly concerned about continued MS
support
>>for the NT4 protocols in the client.
>>    
>>
>
>At some point we will add support for FDS to our XAD identity
>server, which supports native Active Directory clients.
>
>(XAD presently uses OpenLDAP, with a large number of SLAPI
>plugins.)
>
>No idea on the schedule, though... :-)
>  
>
By SLAPI, I''m assuming you mean the old Netscape DS plugin API?  If so,
it should work with FDS.
>
>cheers,
>
>-- Luke
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>By SLAPI, I''m assuming you mean the old Netscape DS plugin API?  If
so, it should work with FDS.
Yep, although we added some extensions (see. SLAPI_X_* in OpenLDAP) and
we also have dependencies on the OpenLDAP client library, ldapi://, etc.

-- Luke

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