password synchronization - again!
Jenny Fox
foxje at spole.gov
Tue Aug 29 10:42:43 GMT 2000
Hello.
I am sure someone else has been in this situation - I'm running a very
heterogeneous network of unix, macintosh, and NT machines. I am using a
linux/samba server for home directories, which is also running
netatalk. The problem is with password synchronization - I currently
have security=domain set which enables the NT users access without a
problem. Unfortunately, if someone changes their password from a unix
box or a macintosh, their NT password is not changed. I have a wide
spectrum of users - from those who have never encountered a computer
before to computer professionals, and I would like to make this as easy
as possible for everyone. What I would really like is that if someone
changed their password from any machine, it has been changed for all
platforms, which means that somehow I have to synchronize the unix
password file and the NT SAM database.
I read in the documentation that samba cannot act as a BDC. Would
making the linux server the PDC solve this problem? I'm running a
pretty extensive NT network with SMS, IIS, etc... so I wonder what kinds
of problems I would have if my samba server were the PDC.
Does anyone else have any experience with this? I am running 2.0.7 on
RH 6.2. Thank you for any suggestions.
--jenny
Jennifer Fox
Network Administrator
Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Antarctica
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