domain-controller

Any Problems Using Samba as a Windows Domain Controller?

We're looking to run a Windows domain using Samba+OpenLDAP on Ubuntu as a domain controller. The documentation out there is a bit spotty and out of date, especially when it comes to installation, which features are supported, and how well. Once this is set up, we hope to be able to use integrated authentication of our IIS sites (includi...

Fail-Safe connection to domain controller with System.DirectoryServices

When using a DirectoryEntry to initialize a DirectorySearcher object, I've been just using the simple LDAP string of "LDAP://dc=mydomain,dc=com". The problem with this method is that on Windows XP, it will only use the LogonServer (the domain controller that was used when logging in to Windows). I've encountered cases where that domain...