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Re:Ask HN: If WinServer2019 was made free to use tomorrow,wo... by HideousKojima on Friday July 10, 2020 @12:42PM (#23793359)
Samba is pretty decent
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Re:Ask HN: If WinServer2019 was made free to use tomorrow,wo... by LeSaucy on Friday July 10, 2020 @12:51PM (#23793486)
Thats like saying tires are a decent replacement for Uber.
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Re:Ask HN: If WinServer2019 was made free to use tomorrow,wo... by HideousKojima on Friday July 10, 2020 @02:04PM (#23794412)
How? Samba supports AD, and can work as a replacement for Windows AD (or together with Windows DCs)
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Re:Ask HN: If WinServer2019 was made free to use tomorrow,wo... by timw4mail on Friday July 10, 2020 @01:24PM (#23793917)
Samba is SMB/CIFS, a file sharing implementation. How does that relate to Active Directory, other than file permissions?
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Re:Ask HN: If WinServer2019 was made free to use tomorrow,wo... by xav0989 on Friday July 10, 2020 @01:50PM (#23794245)
Samba is also an Active Directory Domain Controller[0]. While its not a perfect implementation of the system, it's sufficient for many usecases.

[0]: https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setting_up_Samba_as_an_Acti...

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