What software to choose for a Domain Controller?

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VN2020-07-02 12:05:32

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VN, 2020-07-02 12:05:32

Prompt, what for today the decision in adjustment of DC the most optimum. The choice is between Samba and OpenLdap. The client part is heterogeneous, with a couple of dozen windows7,10, a dozen Ubuntu and one MacBook.

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CityCat4, 2020-07-02
@kavabangaungava

openldap is not a domain controller. This is a certain part of it - the LDAP server. And that's it. To build a DC, there is only either samba or freeipa

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Belfigor, 2020-07-02
@AdminGuide

To raise a Linux domain controller from scratch, Ubuntu Server 20.04 is enough. As a result, you will get a full-fledged domain controller that can easily serve up to hundreds of machines (with a file and more), will dynamically update its dns zone and you can manage it through native RSAT tools. (gpo, active directory and dns). I don’t know if they will ban me for a link to Yandex Zen, but here is a ready-made working manual