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Announcing the ubuntu-directory team
Do you pine for a good old days of Active Directory? Does WSUS make your heart throb? Miss these things on Ubuntu? We do and so we have decided to do something about it. Thus I would like announce the creation of the ubuntu-directory team. What is our mission, you ask? We aim to make Ubuntu rock, both as a client of directory services and as a server of the same. Who are we? A group of people with extensive experience with AD and other similar technologies, including Jerry Haltom, Andrew Forgue, Jorge Castro and myself.Things like DFS, deploying printers, domain controller replication, DNS, joining clients to a domain, Windows Server Update Services, Group Policy Objects, and scripting Windows. So what are you working on? Lots of things. Here is the quick skinny: Easy connection of clients to an LDAP server (including AD) https://features.launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/netwo... (still under heavy review and rewriting) An easy LDAP server https://features.launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/ubunt... An update server https://features.launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/ubunt... Is that all your are working on? Far from it. Here are some more: https://features.launchpad.net/people/ubuntu-directory/+s... Where do we find you? On Launchpad, of course: https://launchpad.net/people/ubuntu-directory On freenode: #ubuntu-directory On our mailing lists https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-directory What can I do to help? We need help polishing up our specs. We need code monkeys. Lots of them. Those that speak C and Python are most appreciated. Lets make feisty rock in the enterprise space! Corey -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-an... (Log in to post comments)
Announcing the ubuntu-directory team Posted Nov 2, 2006 5:28 UTC (Thu) by elanthis (subscriber, #6227) [Link] Honestly, I think the answere here should be pretty clear:
Samba4.
It has a KDC, LDAP server, and CIFS support. That's three major components of a complex, centrally-administrated UNIX network. Add on the fact that it also supports the Windows required extensions and protocols, and you've got a winner.
I don't see how this new team could really accomplish anything lasting and useful, unless they're starting to contribute code to Samba4.
Announcing the ubuntu-directory team Posted Dec 2, 2006 12:00 UTC (Sat) by csamuel (subscriber, #2624) [Link] It looks like they want to support other directory services systems aswell as AD judging by the (rather quiet) mailing list.
Andrew Bartlett from the Samba team is on the list, which is encouraging.
Chris
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