RE: ActiveDir / eDirectory

[Adam Williams <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Novell has eDirectory (NDS) for Linux. It will interop with AD later 
this
>year, or so I've heard. There is also an LDAP gateway to NDS, thereby
>allowing non-Novell clients and apps to access data within the 
directory.
>You can read all about it at:
> http://www.novell.com/products/nds/details.html#features
>According to this, it's the preferred directory for many companies,
>including Red Hat.
>It'll be interesting to see if the Samba team takes Active Directory on, 
or
>if it will become a seperate project.

I do not think (I'm on the Samba devel list) that the Samba team will
"take on" AD.  The developers have "promised" the next production
release of Samba will have full LDAP support (currently you have to use
HEAD or TNG).  Since the big push in Samba is for Samba to be the PDC
bieng a client to AD is not so hot a topic,  but since AD has an LDAP
gateway (don't know if it's additional $$$ or not) LDAP support in 
Samba should solve the problems boths ways.  Now if M$ had just used
LDAP in the first place.....

>I am amazed at the way people are going ga-ga over AD. It's a 1.0 
product!
>NDS has been around for many years, works on more than just NetWare
>(including NT!), and is proven.

I don't get it either.  I had my OpenLDAP enabled network rolling out 
quite awhile before AD finally shipped.  I think it is because there
are a lot of committedly M$-only shops.  Caterpillar (for which we are
a dealer) is one,  EVERYTHING is M$, and non-M$ solutions are not
even seriously considered.  Outlook, exchange, etc....  So things like
LDAP or NDS are just off their radar.

> Just my $.02.

I'd have paid $.05 for the pleasure of hearing it.