On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 09:02:05PM +0200, Ira Abramov wrote: > A(nother) client of mine is fighting the old fight of central directory > management. Situation went quickly downhill yesterday when their Active > Directory server's hardware died. I've been originally asked to come > help them integrate it with Linux but instead tomorrow it will be an > emergency fire fight and maybe a different approach should be > considered.
... > Also, if a Samba machine is a direcotry server, can I get the rest of > the Gnu/Linux nodes on the LAN authenticate against that somehow or do I > have to synchronise that to a YP map? what's the best way of > synchronising a password change to both the yp master as well as the > Samba's internal DB? I always just change password for both on the > commandline but in a real world environment I suppose there should be a > web interface maybe to do that? should I look at SWAT? I have no idea if this will help, but Windows Services For UNIX (SFU), includes an NFS client and a facility for mapping YP user names and groups to Windows logons and AFAIK, vice versa. SFU is a free download from Microsoft. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM IL Voice: (07)-7424-1667 U.S. Voice: 1-215-821-1838 Visit my 'blog at http://geoffstechno.livejournal.com/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
