Why so much user's accounts

[Adam Williams]

> Is smbpasswd the only way to auth SAMBA users?
>
> We use over 50 Linux (NIS Client) and NT workstations (lilo multi-boot).
>
> We've 1 server LINUX for SAMBA +  NIS Server,
> we've 1 server LINUX for E-mail + NIS Client,
> we've 1 server NT 4 for PDC.
>
> So there's :
>     1 unix account for each UNIX User
> +
>     1 account for each NT user.
>
> How can we minimize the number of user account (only 1 / user for UNIX,
> NT, E-mail) ?
>
> Can we think :  SAMBA become PDC so using NIS for all authentification
> is the best way ?
>
> What about NIS+ ?
>

Use an LDAP server,  pam & nss ldap on the Linux clients (I've got about 100),
a Samba PDC using the LDAP server as it's backend (hence NT uses LDAP
indirectly.).