[Samba] samba and NIS?

[Bill Dossett]

was wondering about ldap, but I just got NIS up
and running and it seems to be working ok and I was
making progress but, I guess I better have a look at
ldap then... thanks for the suggestion

bill


Bradley W. Langhorst wrote:
> If you're just starting out with this i would recommend using 
> ldap and 
> libnss_ldap and samba's ldapsam instead.
> 
> you can do the secure passwords easily this way and  you won't have to
> deal with NIS...
> 
> brad
> On Tue, 2002-09-03 at 10:44, Bill Dossett wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>I have a few questions.   My goal is to run
>>NIS and samba so I have a central point of passwd control
>>and just one place to change passwords.   I will eventually
>>have 5 samba servers so this is quite important to me as
>>I don't want to have to change passwords and setup passwords
>>on 5 servers when changing or adding new users.
>>
>>Can this be done?  So that if a user changes his password
>>for samba it changes it in NIS as well?
>>
>>Do I have to run my samba server as a windoze PDC and
>>have everyone belong to the windoze domain is the next
>>question?  As I can't figure out how you would change your
>>password from a workstation on another server in a workgroup,
>>I would guess it would have to be a domain with the samba server
>>running as a PDC... I'm not keen on domains and would rather
>>just use a workgroup as the domain I currently have under
>>windoze has given me more problems than it was worth as I
>>my users don't really hot-seat, so other than password
>>syncing, it was a waste.
>>
>>I've done a pretty good search on NIS and samba over the last
>>couple days and I haven't found any HOWTOs... if anyone
>>has any pointers to docs, I'd very much appreciate it.
>>
>>
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Bill
>>
>>
>>
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