samba - Sep 2012 - Samba/LDAP appliance recommendation

Hi all,

What's a good Samba+LDAP appliance these days for a small business?
Currently I used a stock Ubuntu server and did all Samda/LDAP configuration
manually. I'm looking for something that can allow my regular staff to use
as well.

1. I tried most of the popular NAS distros, like FreeNAS, NAS4Free,
OpenmediaVault, etc. Most of these NAS don't have an LDAP server built-in

2. I tried Openfiler, ClearOS and Zentyal which do have LDAP server
built-in but I haven't gotten them to import my existing Samba/LDAP data
yet. WIP.

3. I just discovered Artica NAS Appliance and Univention UCS, will be
testing them this week. Do you guys know anything about these two distros?

Sometimes I wonder if I even need LDAP, I migrated to LDAP before only to
make it a little easier (though not by much) to edit samba account data
(e.g. SID). I guess I'd like to have centralized authentication as well
(clients include Windows, Mac OSX and Linux, maybe OpenVPN as well). Is
there a simpler mode of centralized login operation? Or is LDAP the only
viable solution?

- Jeff

Am Mon, 17 Sep 2012 04:35:39 +0800 schrieb Jeffrey Chan:
> Hi all,
> 
> What's a good Samba+LDAP appliance these days for a small business?


not using it myself:
http://www.univention.de/
http://www.zentyal.org/

- Thomas

On Mon, 2012-09-17 at 04:35 +0800, Jeffrey Chan wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> What's a good Samba+LDAP appliance these days for a small business?
> Currently I used a stock Ubuntu server and did all Samda/LDAP configuration
> manually. I'm looking for something that can allow my regular staff to
use
> as well.
> 
> 1. I tried most of the popular NAS distros, like FreeNAS, NAS4Free,
> OpenmediaVault, etc. Most of these NAS don't have an LDAP server
built-in
> 
> 2. I tried Openfiler, ClearOS and Zentyal which do have LDAP server
> built-in but I haven't gotten them to import my existing Samba/LDAP
data
> yet. WIP.
> 
> 3. I just discovered Artica NAS Appliance and Univention UCS, will be
> testing them this week. Do you guys know anything about these two distros?
> 
> Sometimes I wonder if I even need LDAP, I migrated to LDAP before only to
> make it a little easier (though not by much) to edit samba account data
> (e.g. SID). I guess I'd like to have centralized authentication as well
> (clients include Windows, Mac OSX and Linux, maybe OpenVPN as well). Is
> there a simpler mode of centralized login operation? Or is LDAP the only
> viable solution?
Samba 4.0 as an AD DC would be a good choice.

Andrew Bartlett

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