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Join Fedora 19 to Active Directory Domain using realmd

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 26, 2013

For years, Linux administrators have been successfully using Samba winbind to integrate Linux with Active directory. While configuring a Linux host to join an Active Directory Domain is pretty simple, it still involves editing a few configuration files manually in most cases. The new software, realmd, changes all of that, and makes joining a Linux host to an Active Directory Domain easier than ever before!

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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