Microsoft Working For Samba Interoperability

JP writes "Andrew Bartlett of Samba fame has written a document describing their recent collaboration with Microsoft's Active Directory team. In brief, it would seem that the sky is falling, as Microsoft's engineers seem to be really committed to making Samba fully interoperable with AD. They have organized interoperability fests and have knowledgeable engineers answering technical questions without legal or marketing drones getting in the way. However according to Andrew the Samba AD team is currently very short on manpower, so if you have network experience, now is the time to get coding."

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hah this is too little too late

[DragonTHC]

The samba team already made sure it was interoperable. You can use samba/ldap as an AD replacement.

I have done it.

MS just wants to save some customers by doing this. I say it's not going to work all that well.

Those customers are probably not going to ditch windows desktops for linux anytime soon though.