Using eBox As A Windows Primary Domain Controller

[ Thanks to Falko Timme for this link. ]

"This tutorial shows you step by step how to use eBox as Windows Primary Domain Controller. At the end of it you will be using eBox Platform 1.2 for users and shared resources management on your Windows domain.

"1. Installing the eBox server
The system installation can be done in two different ways: Using the eBox Platform Installer (recommended). Using an existing Ubuntu LTS Server Edition installation.. In the second case, you need to add eBox Platform PPA repositories to your sources.list and install the packages you are interested in.

"Nevertheless, in the first case eBox Platform installation and deployment is easier as all the dependencies are in a single CD and in addition, some pre- configuration is made during the installation process. For this reason we will take this approach on this tutorial."

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