samba - Jul 2012 - Help infomation to build the system as Microsoft Active Directory !

Dear Mr/Madam,
We have wanted to build the system for centralizal management: User
account, printer, policy, deploy softwares to client, manage update OS,
Single Sign On, ....
I know there have a same system as Micrsoft Active Directory, but we
haven't a lot dollars.
Please help me to answer some questions as the below:
 - How is the solution (*OpenLDAP + Samba*) on Ubuntu, RHEL/CentOS or SUSE
server ?
 - How many user can the system support maximum ?
 - Could i build the system include Primary Domain Controller Server and
Additional Domain Controller ?
 - Does Samba/OpenLDAP has cost-edition for enterprise ? If yes, what is it
different from free-edition ?
I'm looking forward to supporting from you. Thanks so much

Best regards,
Aihm

Many of your questions should be answered on www.samba.org and
wiki.samba.org


Samba4 provides Active Directory functionality.   It is free -  you
don't have to pay for it, but there is the cost of your time.   





On 07/24/12 08:08, Ha Minh Ai wrote:
> Dear Mr/Madam,
> We have wanted to build the system for centralizal management: User
> account, printer, policy, deploy softwares to client, manage update OS,
> Single Sign On, ....
> I know there have a same system as Micrsoft Active Directory, but we
> haven't a lot dollars.
> Please help me to answer some questions as the below:
>  - How is the solution (*OpenLDAP + Samba*) on Ubuntu, RHEL/CentOS or SUSE
> server ?
>  - How many user can the system support maximum ?
>  - Could i build the system include Primary Domain Controller Server and
> Additional Domain Controller ?
>  - Does Samba/OpenLDAP has cost-edition for enterprise ? If yes, what is it
> different from free-edition ?
> I'm looking forward to supporting from you. Thanks so much
>
> Best regards,
> Aihm