Domain on ubuntu?

Question

Active Directory

Good day, I want to raise a domain in a local network on free hardware, there is ubuntu 10.04 working as a proxy on squid, I want to raise a domain and blood pressure on it, tell me a good manual on this case (in Russian) (and is it really possible at all to implement this)
ps with *nix systems I'm on “you”, the proxy was raised by means of smoking mana and installing Webmin for quick configuration via the web interface.

Answer 1

Just like your order made a wonderful distribution kit Linux Directory Server

Calculate Directory Server (CDS) is a free distribution that is an LDAP server for centralized storage of user settings, applications, and access rights in a single network storage.
CDS can successfully replace Windows NT Server ® (with support for Windows clients) and provide additional services: LDAP, DNS, PROXY, Mail, FTP, Jabber and many others that can be deployed in minutes.

It's really simple and fast.

Answer 2

Samba

Answer 3

Yeah, probably which turns Home into Pro. Samba cannot emulate a PDC, it can only become part of an existing domain, the domain will turn out to be incomplete without it.

samba 2.x could already act as a PDC for an NT domain, integrate with LDAP (resource storage) and Kerberos (authorization). key for XP set the checkbox in the authorization method settings.

Answer 4

if there is money for Windows pro / business on clients, maybe there will be a server on the server? in any case, the solution will be much easier to install and better!

Answer 5

1) Mandriva directory server www.howtoforge.com/mandriva-directory-server-on-debian-etch
installed fine on ubuntu too.
2) ebox aka Zentyal Server www.zentyal.com
can do a lot of things including being pdc