On Friday 31 July 2009 15:05:29 Craig White wrote:
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I'm going through the Howto:Samba from <directory.fedoraproject.org> at the moment and hopefully that will get me started.
But what would be nice is:
- Howto:migtate existing NIS to CentosDS
- Howto:migrate existing Samba to CentosDS
seriously...I don't think you are ever going to find such a beast.
True, it was a wish list after all ;-)
There are some really good tools from padl to migrate nis to ldap (on Redhat/CentOS installed as part of openldap-servers package). This may require some amount of script-fu (perl, sed, awk, etc.) but not too much. Then to add the samba attributes/passwords/machine accounts will require a larger dose of script-fu.
I've got them and they are useful. As I said I'm going through the Howto:Samba now.
But this all would be virtually impossible without a decent knowledge of how LDAP works and that is regardless of whether you use CentOS-DS or OpenLDAP.
Craig
After reading Carter's book I think i've got some idea of how LDAP works. Just a pity that most books/documentation seem to be about OpenLDAP so it takes a while to convert to Centos-DS.
regards, Tony