AD Manager is an open-source project that manages Active Directory on Windows Server or Samba 4 via web panel, desktop app, CLI and MCP, with Windows-permission shares, backup, synchronization and migration.
Joining Ubuntu to Active Directory lets a Linux desktop or server authenticate with the same Windows account, without a local user on each machine. The domain remains on-premises AD DS (or Entra Domain … Read more
Samba 4 is still the free AD implementation: LDAP, Kerberos, DNS, and SYSVOL in the same process. In 2017, this post provisioned 4.7.0 on Leap 42.3. In 2026, the official wiki and Leap 15.6 speak the same language — samba-tool — … Read more
