[Samba] Winbindd as NIS replacement in heterogen environement

[Stephen Collier]

You could try AD4Unix and ldap. We have been using it for a couple of years
with no problems.

regards
Stephen Collier


-----Original Message-----
From: Benoit Panizzon [mailto:benoit.panizzon at imp.ch]
Sent: Wednesday, 27 October 2004 8:11 PM
To: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: [Samba] Winbindd as NIS replacement in heterogen environement


Hi all

We have the following environement:

Microsoft ADS for Windows Users, NIS for Un*x Users.
Samba 3.x Fileservers.

Win2k/XP Clients which use CIFS to connect to the Fileserver.
FreeBSD/Linux Clients which use NFS to connect to the Fileserver.

For the moment, Windows User authenticate against the ADS and Un*x users 
authenticate against a NIS Server. Everything runs fine.

But we would like to merge the two existing user bases into one central
place.

So the first idea was to get rid of NIS and start using winbind and Kerberos

on all Un*x clients.
But in the default settings every client would generate it's own set of user

ID's and that would end up in a huge mess on the NFS servers.

Is there a way to integrate the Posix Account Data in to the ADS so that it 
can be used by winbind or maybe something like a LDAP authenticated login on

the unix clients?
Or is the only way to solve this problem by setting up a openldap server and

get winbindd to store username => Posix uid's into this directory?

Has somebody allready got such an environement running? I'm not so
interrested 
in theoretical possibilities to solve it, I've read them too :-)

Regards
-- 
Benoît Panizzon, <bp at imp.ch>
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