Bill, I've done this several times before. It can be a bit tricky if you don't read through all the documentation, but Samba has some examples on their site that walk you through the process. <a href="http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/samba-pdc.html">http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/samba-pdc.html</a> There are GUI's available for various tasks. Basically, you get all the functionality of a Windows NT 4 PDC. No Active Directory as of yet. But you can use NT 4 tools for managing users and groups. You can also setup system policies, though no group policies.<div>
Samba is working on version 4 which is supposed to give you Active Directory, but it's still in alpha stage. They claim what is finished is stable, it's just all the features aren't finished yet. <a href="http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4">http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4</a></div>
<div><a href="http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4"></a>Let me know if you have any more questions.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 7:48 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:blloyd@buskercom.com">blloyd@buskercom.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p>Has anyone succeeded in creating a Windows DC with a Linux
box? If so, what did you use? How complicated was it? Does it
have a GUI interface?</p>
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<p>Thanks,</p>
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