@tonyshowoff said in Alternatives for Microsoft server products: Active Directory & Domain Controller:

@thwr said in Alternatives for Microsoft server products: Active Directory & Domain Controller:

@tonyshowoff Microsoft is quite powerful in client management, something I'm missing in the *NIX world. Puppet or Ansible for example could be a starting point, but not a replacement as far as I can tell.

Edit: Sorry, mixed Samba and OpenLDAP. Fixed that in my initial post.

Definitely lacking in client side, though you can use LDAP with KDE's login system if you have X running on boot. That's pretty close, though your GPOs are often meaningless. I always used to hold out hope for ReactOS, it was promising, but the project is too mismanaged and team unmotivated. I've always wanted an NT-POSIX kernel, but I'm afraid maybe that train has sailed.

ReactOS is definitely interesting, I'm following it for years. But it seems to like the HURD kernel somehow

Authentication on the *NIX side shouldn't be much of a problem at all, there are PAM LDAP modules available and widely in use.

@Gabor Well, CentOS is just a RedHat'ish flavour of Linux. Just saw that ClearOS is the new name of ClarkConnect, thought that was dead. Thanks for mentioning.

@all: Again, it's not about my specific situation, but more thought to be a guide for others. Or at least something that can be compiled into a guide later on. I'm also not looking about specific Linux distributions that can fulfill a couple of jobs but for specific FOSS software (like nginx for webservers, OpenLDAP for AD, ...). And these things should be discussed in their respective topics, like this one: https://mangolassi.it/topic/9668/alternatives-for-microsoft-server-products-active-directory-domain-controller

@tonyshowoff Microsoft is quite powerful in client management, something I'm missing in the *NIX world. Puppet or Ansible for example could be a starting point, but not a replacement as far as I can tell.

Edit: Sorry, mixed Samba and OpenLDAP. Fixed that in my initial post.

I'm more looking at infrastructure things at the moment, like a GPO-capable AD replacement. Clients are and probably will be Windows for the foreseeable future and I need to manage those.

But the whole topic isn't just about my needs, I know for example that @scottalanmiller replaced everything and I thought it could be a good idea to have a couple of topics to gather that knowledge for others.

@DustinB3403 quite a bit, but what's the point of having a "great day" with a lot of pain involved.

It's not about being the best out there, but it sucks quite a bit that your rating suffers from poor questions:

This topic is part of the series Alternatives for Microsoft server products

Samba is quite capable of running AD, but what about management options or multi-site environments? Anyone knows about other software?

Edit: We're talking about OpenLDAP here too.

I would like to discuss some options for replacing the most popular Microsoft server products with free and/or open source alternatives. To keep the discussion aligned, I will create quite a few threads over the course of the next weeks.

My major concern about using Microsoft software is not about the quality or the price. It's about managing all the licensing, which really is a PITA and nearly impossible to overcome for just a one or two men show. I just don't have the time to do a two week research for SharePoint licensing or keeping our upgrade documentation updated.

This thread here should be used only for general aspects about this topic.

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1. Active Directory and Domain Controllers

@nadnerB said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@thwr said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@nadnerB said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Righto, I'm done... for now
I just found a stash of random stuff

No wonder you made it to 3.6k... every picture a single post

Hang around @scottalanmiller for too long and you'll do it too!
Also, stop perving at my profile or the hypnotoad will get you

Hehe, yeah, I'm already afraid of that: hypnosam.

@nadnerB said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Righto, I'm done... for now
I just found a stash of random stuff

No wonder you made it to 3.6k... every single picture in a separated post

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

It's Super-Duper-Rebecca-Day, my wife's birthday. She doesn't know what I've planned for today:

• We'll start with a little breakfast
• A little bit of shopping after that until
• Lunch in some restaurant of her choice.
• Next would be sitting at the Alster and reading a book or something (shes really loves that).
• A bit more shopping in downtown Hamburg
• At 17:00h we will slowly start moving towards the Reeperbahn where Schmitz Tivoli is, a tiny but great musical and comedy stage. We will visit a show there at 19:00h (7pm).
• Maybe we'll get a cake and coffee before.

So basically a 'everything-you-like' day for her. Hope she enjoys.

... She got some back pain today, so we will cancel everything but having some lunch and going to the musical. "Dumm gelaufen" (like "Shit happens" in EN).

At 09:08h CEST / GMT+2? I guess there's something else up, we had quite some heavy discussions yesterday without any 503.

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

He didn't bring his laptop with him, which really sucks now.

This would be my very last problem in such a case. Better celebrate an additional birthday per year.

It's Super-Duper-Rebecca-Day, my wife's birthday. She doesn't know what I've planned for today:

• We'll start with a little breakfast
• A little bit of shopping after that until
• Lunch in some restaurant of her choice.
• Next would be sitting at the Alster and reading a book or something (shes really loves that).
• A bit more shopping in downtown Hamburg
• At 17:00h we will slowly start moving towards the Reeperbahn where Schmitz Tivoli is, a tiny but great musical and comedy stage. We will visit a show there at 19:00h (7pm).
• Maybe we'll get a cake and coffee before.

So basically a 'everything-you-like' day for her. Hope she enjoys.

@Carnival-Boy said in Sharepoint-like application that doesn't cost a huge fortune?:

I think the biggest problem with Sharepoint Foundation, in terms of cost, is the database requirements i.e. it will only run with SQL Server.

SQL Server Express is free, but is pretty limited and doesn't really seem intended for production environments. In particular the fact that databases are limited to 10GB, which seems pretty tiny for a typical Sharepoint site. So you quickly end up needing SQL Server Standard edition, which is pretty expensive. If you don't have SQL Server already, you probably need to budget for that at the outset, even if you're only planning on using Sharepoint Foundation.

I'd like Microsoft to provide something in between Express and Standard, but I'm not allowed to criticise Microsoft on ML so I'll say no more

Don't want to defile an old thread, but I need to add a few things.

First off, comparing Sharepoint to OwnCloud, while beeing a great tool, is like comparing
a warp-capable spaceship to a paperdart. SharePoint is a collaboration platform where you build your own applications on top while OwnCloud is basically a filesharing platform with a few addons.

There are quite a few factors which are driving the costs for SharePoint:

• Windows Server CALs (few known users / devices) or Windows Server for Internet Sites ("CAL" flatrate, mucho dinero)
• SQL Server, Standard or higher edition and CALs (UserCAL's for SQL server are very expensive. Use this for a few known users) or Core edition (Flatrate, can be more or less "cheap". I'm using this one)
• If going past SP Foundation:
  a) SharePoint CAL, Standard should suffice in most cases
  b) SharePoint for Internet Sites if public facing with anonymous access
  c) You will most probably need a farm, at least one frontend and one backend server.
• ForeFront UAG/TMG and CAL (used to be the only "supported" reverse proxy). Not sold anymore, no successor available, Windows Server publishing role is used today

So SharePoint Standard / Enterprise on a public facing site with anonymous access can burn through your budget like Oracle and SAP. SharePoint for a known user base can be OK from a licensing point of view. Today, SharePoint on Office365 is way cheaper than having something on premise I guess.

SharePoint has a lot to offer and I haven't found anything FOSS that comes even close myself yet. Alfresco is the only one that at least is a very little bit like SharePoint, but nothing I would call a replacement.

So what is SharePoint actually? Simply said, anything you want it to be. It's an application platform with multiple frontends, the well known website is just one of them.

6. There's a law in New York that forbids horses to eat fire hydrants.
7. If you put a full years production of M&Ms in a line, it would reach 6 times from earth to moon and back.
8. It's now allowed to have sex with a porcupine in Florida (good luck on this one anyway)
9. Madam in Thai means "Black dog"
10. Every year right before the heavy metal open air in Wacken, Germany, the local authorities will remove all the town signs.

@IRJ said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@thwr said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@IRJ said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

I beat KOTOR last week on my phone as darkside. Now I am playing through it again as lightside.

Got that too for Android, but don't get used of the controls. Have you tried a gamepad?

I got used to the controls. It took about an hour, but now it is like 2nd nature. I have put over 50 hours in both games so far.

Ok, thanks. Got a Sony Xperia Z3 (not the mini one) at the moment, but it's all very small. Guess I will play that on a tablet.

@IRJ said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

I beat KOTOR last week on my phone as darkside. Now I am playing through it again as lightside.

Got that too for Android, but don't get used of the controls. Have you tried a gamepad?

Useless knowledge

1. Nutella has a sun protection factor of 9.7
2. USS Ronald Reagan got a postal code on its own
3. Being sexually attracted by trees is called dendrophilia
4. Sneezing can be as fast 170 km/h or 105.63 mph
5. There's a law in Saxonia (Germany, kind of) that forbids women to parachute on Sundays

From a book my wife is currently reading

@Jstear said in Is it bashing to ask what other were thinking:

@thwr said in Is it bashing to ask what other were thinking:

@Jstear said in Is it bashing to ask what other were thinking:

@Minion-Queen said in Is it bashing to ask what other were thinking:

@Dashrender said in Is it bashing to ask what other were thinking:

@DustinB3403 said in Is it bashing to ask what other were thinking:

@Jstear And now David is deleting my replies.

Awesome, so I can't even approach the OP publicly to let them know that other conversations are going on.

David can eat a bag of *****

SW can't allow people to post links that steal their conversations to other forums.. they need to keep everyone there.

This always has to be done via PM. No matter what forum you are talking about they don't want things to leave the community.

I once had a post removed from Experts Exchange due to posting an answer and sourcing another forum, from where I found the resolution. They can do this, as it is in there Terms of Use of using the site.
https://www.experts-exchange.com/terms.jsp
You shall not engage in any of the following activities, which are strictly prohibited under the Code of Conduct:
Posting links in open questions that encourage Members to use competing sites.

I would expect at least some education in IT. We all (should have) learned about correct source citation. Stating an information's source is not only valid but important IMHO.

I agree, but they didn't like it.

Doesn't speak for EE. I've always posted links to sources over at SW for example.