Message: 2 Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:58:48 -0400 From: Bobby Jain bobsf40@gmail.com To: discuss@studiosysadmins.com Subject: [SSA-Discuss] Directory services in a mixed environment (OSX, Windows, Linux) Message-ID: CAG7Vm5RQRiTjbe-Qtp72iczcUWr6Oh0N2tzxJSswrm9ABYgttQ@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Hi,
Can anybody shed some light on a good practice of how to tie together machines with three different operating systems? If it were a completely windows environment, Active Directory would be a no brainer. But we all have mixed environments: accounting has to be on windows, POST has to be on OSX and CG could be linux or windows.
Some people I have talked to, suggested running a Windows Domain, and joining all other OS's to active directory. Others have suggested an openLDAP solution. I don't think open direcotyr is a viable
Suggestions, best practices, or guides would be very helpful.
thanks,
Bobby Jain
We've been using Centrify for three years to join RHEL 5.x systems to our 2008 AD domain and have been very pleased with the GUID/SSID mapping. Our OSX systems (all Snow Leopard or Lion) seem to bind well out of the box, unlike the difficulty we had in the Tiger days.
The cost for user workstations is pretty reasonable (about $60/seat IIRC), but servers are around $300, I think. There are some considerations to make if you have an extensive list of local users on your Linux systems as you'll need to create global GUIDs for any accounts from your domain and you need to avoid conflicts.
Let me know if you have any specific questions.
james
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