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Integration with Active Directory Jeremy Allison Samba Team

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Why must we use an <strong>Active</strong> <strong>Directory</strong> Server ?•Windows clients do not allow replacement of their low­levelfunctionality to ease integration <strong>with</strong> non­Windows directoryservers.•As usual, it is easier to configure non­Windows systems tointeroperate <strong>with</strong> Windows systems than vica­versa.•The free release of Microsoft Services for UNIX does help here,although the protocols used (NIS) are not as secure as using thenative protocols of Kerberos and LDAP.•<strong>Active</strong> <strong>Directory</strong> servers can have their LDAP schema (the formaldefinition of the format of the data they store) extended to allowthem to serve non­Windows clients.

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