# Directory Service
**URL:** https://forums.suse.com/t/directory-service/26102
**Category:** SLES Configure-Administer
**Created:** [September 21, 2014, 10:01pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/directory-service/26102 "2014-09-21T22:01:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@jamilsaif](https://forums.suse.com/u/jamilsaif)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2014, 10:01pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/directory-service/26102/1 "2014-09-21T22:01:34Z")
Greetings,
what is the equivalent component/option in SUSE Linux of Windows Active Directory?
and is it configured the same way “Domain Controller(s) / Clients Join the Domain / ets…”?
Thanking you
Jamil
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### Author:  [@ab1](https://forums.suse.com/u/ab1)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2014, 11:03pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/directory-service/26102/2 "2014-09-21T23:03:51Z")
SLES comes with OpenLDAP for a directory, and MIT’s kerberos code for
creation of a kerberized environment (backed by that directory).
What is your business case, though?
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### Author:  [@jamilsaif](https://forums.suse.com/u/jamilsaif)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2014, 10:19am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/directory-service/26102/3 "2014-09-22T10:19:54Z")
ab, thank you for the reply
it addresses part of my need. the other question was how to implement a Domain, and join clients to that domain? is it similar to Windows Domain and Clients Joining the domain?
thanks
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### Author:  [@ab1](https://forums.suse.com/u/ab1)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2014, 2:51pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/directory-service/26102/4 "2014-09-22T14:51:18Z")
On 09/22/2014 01:24 AM, jamilsaif wrote:[color=blue]
> ab, thank you for the reply
>
> it addresses part of my need. the other question was how to implement a
> Domain, and join clients to that domain? is it similar to Windows Domain
> and Clients Joining the domain?[/color]
I presume you mean implement a microsoft active directory (MAD) domain.
As before, it would help to know the business case behind this. “I want
to implement technology X” is not a business case. something more like “I
want all of my users to be able to login with a single set of credentials
across all of these computer.” is a business case, and one that may lead
to the use of a directory.
If you really need a domain, an easier bet may be to go to the Novell
forums and check in the Open Enterprise Server area for a product called
Domain Services for Windows. Basically SLES is used as a base and an
entire MAD domain is emulated on top of it using technologies that are
geared toward that very purpose. You can join SLES boxes, or windows
boxes, or whatever to that domain since it is full emulation, and is meant
to help with those who have business cases like the one above. The
install lately has become pretty slick, and since it runs on top of SLES
has a lot of potential for high stability and security too.
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