Why so much user's accounts

[Christian Duclou]

Hello,

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+ ?

Thanks for your help.

Christian.

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