On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 02:51:35PM -0400, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Jeff Boyce wrote:
Greetings -
installed, is that currently if a user wants to change the password on their Windows workstation, I have to manually update that new password
on the
Linux user account, and also manually change the Samba user account. Manually updating the password in three different locations is a minor headache that I would like to correct. I have been researching and
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You *could* do it with openldap, with the WinDoze boxen authenticating through that. Now, I'll warn you that though it may have improved, a few years ago, openldap was a nightmare to configure, the documentation dreadull where it wasn't almost useless, and googling involved a *lot* of searching.
I have a page on openldap--though I don't cover it with samba--that is a cut above most of the documentation, in my not at all humble opinion--I fully agree with Mark that the vast majority of ldap documentation is horrendous. Some folks have found my page useful, so I'll offer it for consideration.
http://home.roadrunner.com/~computertaijutsu/ldap.html