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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.