En/5.0/Introduction
This section focuses on the services offered by Zentyal as an office
server. In particular, its ability to manage network users in a centralized way,
Files and Printers sharing, automatized sign-on on different services, integration with
Windows AD either as an additional controller or as the operations master.
Directory services allows you to manage the user-related information across your organization, centralizing and abstracting the authorization and permission handling for all the other services. Integration with Samba4 and Kerberos technologies turn Zentyal into a native drop-in replacement for Windows Server in the SMB, managing the Domain information, both in mixed environments (Zentyal and Windows servers) or just Standalone mode with Windows clients.
File sharing and access control policies for users and groups is one of the most important features of an office server and it greatly eases access to workgroup documents in an intuitive way. Security policy allows the protection of critical files within an organization.
