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On 18/08/13 18:01, bad apple wrote:
Haven’t tried RH ODS, but I did write a necessary and sufficient LDAP manager in VB once (could rewrite it in HTML/PHP without much effort) found the major problem was getting management to accept the rules they made...On 18/08/13 17:40, Simon Waters wrote:I've kind of been a fan since the W2K launch party, although the service replication seems overly complex. The demo was by someone who'd worked with some of the tools MS bundled before MS got involved. So a case of nice end user tools but internally rather messy. On the other hand if you have few or no MS clients, it doesn't seem a natural choice. Time to sniff through Novell's portfolio again just to see what is about. Apple have Open Directory but doesn't seem to have much traction.Like everything else even remotely "enterprisey" or "server strength" that Apple attempts, their Open Directory implementation is frankly laughable. It doesn't even work properly for Macs, let alone anything else (trust me on this - one idiot customer of mine went ahead without consulting me first and bought one of those hateful little Mac Mini "servers" this last week and I've had the displeasure of configuring it). As for Novell - Zenworks is dead my friend. Sure eDirectory was a game changer many, many years ago (I have fond memories of Netware 6.5) but it's largely morphed into a big, ugly, proprietary mess that literally not one person on the face of the planet cares about any more. Sure, if you like then go ahead and grab a free trial of the SLES based SUSE Open Enterprise Server but you won't like it (because it's crap, and expensive). Agreed, if you're a Linux-only shop ADS probably isn't a good fit - if you've got more than a couple of Windows boxes lying around though you're going to already have it by default. Costing up licensing for MS stuff can rapidly get ruinous though, so it's often not cost effective for smaller, tighter run shops with budgets to watch (as opposed to the bigger outfits I usually work for, who seem to delight in just flinging stacks of cash down for insanely expensive software licensing). Luckily, this is one of the easier questions to definitively answer, so let's just on with it. In order, you want either: 1: Windows ADS (if you can justify cost and have windows infrastructure) 2: RedHat Open Directory Server And that's it. There are other choices, but you will be fired for even thinking about any of them because they're all terrible. Job done! Regards
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