[OT] AD advantages? [was: Samba integration / adding more objectClasses - Heimdal Kerberos integration]

[Ingo Steuwer]

Am Freitag, 22. August 2008 schrieb Albrecht Dreß:
> digital at usina-de-imagens.com.br schrieb:
> > Maybe now is the right time to also implement Heimdal Kerberos
> > integration, adding the Kerberos schema and objects (like
> > krb5PrincipalName). That way Samba can act as an AD server and integrate
> > with Kolab.
>
> Dumb & OT question: what's the advantage of that, compared to running samba
> as "usual" PDC?

Havin ga real AD-Implementation (which would need samba4, see last mail) will 
offer a more common "Single Sign On" because Windows-Clients can get 
kerberos-tickets.
By the way: you'll have more advantage possibilities for controlling those 
clients (GPOs). 

Regards
Ingo Steuwer

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