Check these 1U Linux boxes out:
www.interpromicro.com We have bought several of these for production use, and so far they are very nice. Starting at just $859.00 they are cheap, small, and all round just pretty nifty.
Well, if your compiling kde from scratch I wrote a simple script to compile the whole ball-of-wax and install it for you. Don't email me with problems, but you can find it here
I don't know too much about talking with the AD from Linux, but I DO know that Win2K's SMB shares are exactly the same as NT4's whih are the same as Samba's etc. So for example I have had NO problems mounting a Win2K fileshare with smbmount at my work. We have a samba fileserver setup that everyone in our company uses and they have no clue that it is really running on Linux. As you may conclude from that samba has no problems authenticating Win2K user accounts against Win2K domain controllers... meaning if you just needed to authenticate users against a Win2K domain (for login purposes or other) use *could* setup a script to try smbmounting something on the domain with their login/pass and see if it worked. I'm sure you can conclude many other things from this.
As far as the AD goes, we tried to get Linux to talk with our Win2K domain controller and access the AD, but alas it never did work. Win2k's ldap implementation is standard, everything seemed to work according to spec, *except* the wierd kerbros
authentication. So if we could have gotten the win2k ldap server to let us authenticate and connect we could have done anything we wanted to, but it never happened.
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Check these 1U Linux boxes out: www.interpromicro.com
We have bought several of these for production use, and so far they are very nice. Starting at just $859.00 they are cheap, small, and all round just pretty nifty.
Well, if your compiling kde from scratch I wrote a simple script to compile the whole ball-of-wax and install it for you. Don't email me with problems, but you can find it here
-Brandon_Z
I don't know too much about talking with the AD from Linux, but I DO know that Win2K's SMB shares are exactly the same as NT4's whih are the same as Samba's etc. So for example I have had NO problems mounting a Win2K fileshare with smbmount at my work. We have a samba fileserver setup that everyone in our company uses and they have no clue that it is really running on Linux. As you may conclude from that samba has no problems authenticating Win2K user accounts against Win2K domain controllers... meaning if you just needed to authenticate users against a Win2K domain (for login purposes or other) use *could* setup a script to try smbmounting something on the domain with their login/pass and see if it worked. I'm sure you can conclude many other things from this.
As far as the AD goes, we tried to get Linux to talk with our Win2K domain controller and access the AD, but alas it never did work. Win2k's ldap implementation is standard, everything seemed to work according to spec, *except* the wierd kerbros authentication. So if we could have gotten the win2k ldap server to let us authenticate and connect we could have done anything we wanted to, but it never happened.
Hope that helps a bit.