[Samba] 2 (Suse), one NT 4 server machine and 5 user databases???

[Adam Williams]

> I currently have a setup of 1 NT 4.0 PDC server and to SUSE boxes
> sharing via a samba share.  I seem to have to make 5 different
> usename/password databases.  1 for NT,  2 for each SuSe box (One Linux
> and one Samba).   Is there a way to have 1 or maybe two databases to
> update?  I've read about LDAP on other connections but I'm a little
> confused as to what is the best approach.  

Yes, LDAP is the "best" approach.

See Section 5 (current pg. 46) of
http://us3.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf

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http://hr.uoregon.edu/davidrl/samba.html#SAMBA-PDC
http://bh.udev.org/filez/doc/ldap/samba-ldap-howto.pdf
http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/samba-pdc.php
ftp://ftp.kalamazoolinux.org/pub/pdf/ldapv3.pdf