Jeff Boyce wrote:
Greetings -
This may be a little off-topic here so if someone wants to point me to a more appropriate mailing list I would appreciate it.
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The issue that I would like to be able to resolve when the new server is 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
<snip> 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.
However, I did put it in in '06 for what wound up to be about 14 or 15 folks, and it worked, and they could change passwords themselves.
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