Samba Team Releases Samba 3.0 (NewsForge)
[Posted September 25, 2003 by ris]
Jeremy Allison
introduces
Samba 3.0 in this NewsForge article. "
Samba 3.0 contains the
first Open Source/Free Software implementation of Windows NT Primary and
Backup Domain Controller functionality. Customers can transparently migrate
their existing Windows NT domains to Samba 3.0 whilst keeping their
existing user and group account databases. This enables significant cost of
ownership savings over a Windows NT4 domain as a Samba 3.0 Domain
Controller does not require client access licenses. Existing Windows tools
can be used to manage a Samba PDC, allowing customer Windows expertise to
be leveraged in a domain migration. A choice of LDAP back-ends allows
integration with an existing customer directory service."
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