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Re: Help - Central Directory Service (fwd)



On May 30,  4:28pm, root wrote:

> I'm trying to replace as many NT machines with RH 5.0 as i can but i'm
> facing very big difficulties  (for me)  :
>
> 1. Managing one users/groups list for the entire domain .
> 2. NT users/groups  sync (am i pushing it too much ??##@).
> 3. Can't make samba and netatalk work on 2 interfaces.
>


1.  Creating a single user/group list between Linux servers/clients is EASY and
it is spelled NIS (Network Information Service),  uses very efficient RPC
calls,  has faillover is "master" authentication server goes down, etc...
   See the NIS-HOWTO, or O'Rielly's "Managing NIS and NFS".  I use a RedHat 5.0
box as my master server,  with backup servers running on a RedHat 4.2 desktop,
a IBM RS/6000 running AIX 4.2,  and another RedHat 4.2 (a 4867sx) across town
via a WAN link.

2. See Samba (http://samba.anu.edu.au/samba/)  The current expirimental version
(obtainable via CVS) can even acts as a PDC (albiet with some caveats,  but
those are RAPIDLY bieng worked on)

3. As far as I know,  To do it with Samba you need to set something in the
smb.conf,  you could always ask their mail list,  or better yet search thier
archives.  I know I've seen this talked about.