Something to remember is that you can't quite get rid of
all of your
Windows servers just yet... Microsoft
still has a lot of tools and functions
and services that
Samba isn't able to (isn't designed to) replace
yet.
The key here is that AD was designed from the beginning to
"own" the
network. It's been the linchpin in Microsoft's
stranglehold on the network.
Every time you implement an AD
domain controller, you suddenly find yourself
getting sucked
into more and more Microsoft tools, because they "just seem
to
work better" with the other MS tools you are using.
This is a sort of
bittersweet victory, because this is
really bowing to the protocols which
Microsoft created,
primarily to support Microsoft clients and services.
However, as organizations start to incorporate this tool
into their own
solutions (much like Samba3 has been
incorporated
into many, many different
solutions and appliances),
then you will start to see some really interesting
things
happening. --- The Observer [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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