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Samba with Active Directory: getting closerSamba with Active Directory: getting closerPosted Feb 3, 2010 18:26 UTC (Wed) by MattPerry (guest, #46341)Parent article: Samba with Active Directory: getting closer
> fall all over the "lumpers" vs. "splitters" spectrum
I have no idea what this means. Searching on these terms returns medical information, some of which is related to studies of fish.
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Samba with Active Directory: getting closer Posted Feb 3, 2010 18:36 UTC (Wed) by admorgan (subscriber, #26575) [Link]
> fall all over the "lumpers" vs. "splitters" spectrum
This is referring to the practice of lumping everything into one big domain, or splitting everything up into lots of little domains.
Samba with Active Directory: getting closer Posted Feb 3, 2010 20:58 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
This is of course a big thing in cladistics and biological taxonomy: hence
all those fish studies.
Samba with Active Directory: getting closer Posted Feb 3, 2010 18:39 UTC (Wed) by zorro (subscriber, #45643) [Link]
I guess it means that you have companies that organize things into a few
domains (lumpers) or a lot of domains (splitters). The company I work for has only one domain containing 5000+ users at different sites throughout the world, so that would make us a lumper.
Samba with Active Directory: getting closer Posted Feb 3, 2010 19:07 UTC (Wed) by C.Gherardi (guest, #4233) [Link]
Refers to admins preferences for running with one big domain (lumpers) vs splitting into either sub-domains or separate domains with trusts betwen them.
Samba with Active Directory: getting closer Posted Feb 4, 2010 1:07 UTC (Thu) by gdt (subscriber, #6284) [Link] The essential problem is that you can only have one directory entry for each user. Most directories start out clumped, and then move towards lumped as as the problems of dealing with people that work at two sites, or people who are both staff and students, etc get too hard to handle sanely. So rather counter-intuitively, larger directories tend to be lumped. You end up with a similar progression of thought with user IDs, the nirvana for operators of huge directories being an ID of six random non-vowel letters with no real-world relevance whatsoever. If someone gets married, you don't want to care. If there's a new regulation concerning the publication of student IDs, you don't want to care.
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