You can’t really auth Linux clients against AD, because you will kill the AD servers. AD and ADAM are shockingly low performance compared to Sun/Netscape LDAP.

You can’t really auth Linux clients against AD, because you will kill the AD servers. AD and ADAM are shockingly low performance compared to Sun/Netscape LDAP. They depend on extensive client side caching to work at all. If you want to tie Unix clients to AD, the first step is to mirror your AD content in a more competent LDAP cluster