> Does anyone knows if there's something that would make WinNT Domain
> Controler (PDC) load user/password/group maps from NIS server???
> It's retarded
Yes. NIS is retarded ;)
> but I need to maintain unix accounts centraly (NIS) on
> Linux, but need to have samba to authenticate agains NT domain, and I
> don't want to recreate accounts for everyone on an NT machine after
> I create them on Linux.
What about having Samba act as your PDC? All NT boxes auth off the Linux
box; you're done.
AFAIK the only major deficiency of Samba acting as a [BP]DC currently is
that NT BDC's can't sync with Samba PDCs and vice versa. Of course, that
could be considered a feature ;)
Check out the samba-ntdom mailing list:
http://www.progressive-comp.com/Lists/?l=samba-ntdom&r=1&w=2#samba-ntdom
Hank Leininger <hlein@progressive-comp.com>
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