Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 12th Nov 2007 21:48 UTC
Windows The breakdown for the various editions of Windows Server 2008 was revealed this morning by Microsoft, and the big news there is the almost total lack of change: Retail server software editions for the next Windows Server will fall right in line with the current Windows Server 2003 R2 editions, including the number of client access licenses provided in the basic package.
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lemur2
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2007-02-17

The server offers Active Directory, which is superior to any alternative on Linux or OSX. LDAP doesn't even come close to the rich features of Active Directory.

Windows XP (and Vista) clients are written to take advantage of the integration.


Samba 4.

http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,28914...

Just add Samba 4 to this:
http://www.howtoforge.com/fedora-8-server-lamp-email-dns-ftp-ispcon...
... or maybe this ...
http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_centos5.0

... and away you go ... for $0 ... even if you are stuck with^h^h^h^h have Windows clients. Even if you have more than 25 Windows clients ... it still won't cost you!

Enjoy!

Glad to be of help!

http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=...

http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4

http://lwn.net/Articles/248246/

(OK, so it still isn't ready for a large group of servers, but it is on its way).

Edited 2007-11-13 09:54

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