[wellylug] Samba PDC/OpenLDAP on SuSE

[Cliff Pratt]

David Harrison wrote:
> On 13/09/2005, at 8:59 AM, Cliff Pratt wrote:
> 
>> There's no reason to limit it to SuSe is there? It didn't
 >> seem on a quick read through that there was anything
 >> distro specific in there.
> 
> Yeah its fairly SuSE specific in parts as Yast is used a
 > great deal for initialising Samba and the PAM/LDAP
 > authentication.
 >
Yes, but there are other ways of doing these tasks!
 >
> Its definitely possible to do this all manually but it
 > would have made the tutorial longer.
 >
The options are NOT SuSe versus doing it manually!
 >
 > Part of the reason why I wrote it was to  show a
> few of my Netware worshiping friends that you can
 > do cool  things with Linux in a short period of time.
>
Well "NetWare worshipping" equates to touched in the head in 
my opinion. Having suffered NetWare for years as an end 
user, I can't see why anyone would willingly work with it or 
use it. It seems that the main justification for it is "It's 
not Microsoft". And it's not as good as Linux! Heh!
 >
> The Novell SuSE connection is also important as most of
 > the companies I do work for use Novell products (like
 > Netware 6.5).
> 
Their pain. There are lots of other companies around.

Cheers,

Cliff