Linux’s Active Directory Killer Is A Step Closer

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Serdar Yegulalp
Jan 23, 2009

“For a long time Samba was a bit of a problem child — difficult
to configure, but also spotty in its support for different
iterations of SMB (e.g., Vista shares vs. XP shares). Samba 4
promises to fix all that — to “just work” out of the box, and to
implement a great many things that previously required a Windows
server. Another key feature, support for Group Policy on Windows
clients, ought to make it that much easier to administer Windows
machines from Linux boxes.”


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Serdar Yegulalp

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