Re: [OT] Linux, NT and NIS integration...

linux-kernel@progressive-comp.com
Tue, 4 May 1999 01:23:18 -0400


On 1999-05-03, Tomasz Przygoda <tprzyg@securities.com> wrote:

> Does anyone knows if there's something that would make WinNT Domain
> Controler (PDC) load user/password/group maps from NIS server???

> It's retarded

Yes. NIS is retarded ;)

> but I need to maintain unix accounts centraly (NIS) on
> Linux, but need to have samba to authenticate agains NT domain, and I
> don't want to recreate accounts for everyone on an NT machine after
> I create them on Linux.

What about having Samba act as your PDC? All NT boxes auth off the Linux
box; you're done.

AFAIK the only major deficiency of Samba acting as a [BP]DC currently is
that NT BDC's can't sync with Samba PDCs and vice versa. Of course, that
could be considered a feature ;)

Check out the samba-ntdom mailing list:

http://www.progressive-comp.com/Lists/?l=samba-ntdom&r=1&w=2#samba-ntdom

Hank Leininger <hlein@progressive-comp.com>

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