I am an advocate of centralized identity management and I think Active Directory makes a great repository for user account information. Interoperability can be a challenge, though. For example, you ...

I'm planning on migrating a few of our Linux servers to use AD authentication via SAMBA/Winbind. Operating system will be openSUSE 11.3 x64. Our AD environment does not have UNIX extensions installed.

As you guys know I'm attemting to get into linux and basically I've been working with samba.I'm interested in integrating samba into a windows 2000 network. My initial research states this can be done ...