Hmm interesting question that just occurred to me based on some demands made by a client to evaluate the possibility of moving to an all Linux infrastructure instead of migrating to Windows 2003.
The two major constraints are cost and ease of management. I was just wondering if anyone had tried to setup an OpenLDAP server on a Linux box, using slurpd to synchronize with an OS X Server instance of OpenLDAP? Ideally, this would be the best of both worlds with a OS X box for the master, and a nice suite of administration tools, along with Linux boxes running the replicas in the remote sites. Seems to address the cost issue (one XServe, and the replicas running on the old NT BCDs) and the ease of management (OS X Server admin GUI).
Before I waste a pile of time putting together an dev environment, anyone have any comments on this? Particularly with respect to the W2K AD emulation mode of OS X; Will this replicate completely? Kerberos interoperability?
Cheers,
Erik
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