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Create a Windows Domain for Free with Samba

Submitted by loner on 27 October, 2008 - 1:13pm

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Windows Domain

Keyword: Samba, Linux, Primary Domain Controller, PDC

Samba is a suite of programs from samba.org that lets Linux talk to Window.

One of its features is for Samba to act as the Primary Domain Controller in the Windows Domain, that is for Samba to act as a Windows Server that provides domain login. This provides a very inexpensive (free!) way to create a simple, but perfectly usable windows domain.