Unfinished Business: The One Missing Piece (O'ReillyNet)

Unfinished Business: The One Missing Piece (O'ReillyNet)

The solutions you mentioned (nds, openldap) are separate solutions that may or may not play well with Active Directory. I think the commentary in the article is describing the problem of interoperating with Active Directory.

Well, it's all LDAP (even AD), so if you use LDAP client tools you should be able to browse and edit the data regardless.

Now, if you have an existing AD installation, then yeah, Unix tools will not easily interoperate - although, AD does support both NIS and the NT4 domain model, either of which can be used by a Linux client workstation (using NIS and Samba Winbind, respectively).

Likewise, Windows client OSes can all use the NT4 domain model, which is well supported by both Samba and Samba-TNG - both of which include LDAP backends.

So I guess the argument here is "my directory server doesn't talk to your directory server" which is, of course, a symmetric problem, not a Linux problem. (: