Salt below appropriately to the fact that I have only looked at using these, I have not yet done the implementation I want to do.
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Boyce Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 14:54 To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] User accounts management for small office
The opinions both for and against OpenLDAP have made me take a little closer look at it, but my conclusion is that it is more cumbersome than what I really want to handle right now for the size of the network. I have looked closer at Samba/Wins/Winbind, etc.
In the LDAP arena 398 [2] looks to me like it should ease a) the mysteries of configuring LDAP, and b) integrate with AD. 389 is in EPEL.
and it looks like the main source of my current problem is that my Samba network is setup now as a Workgroup and not as a Domain. I didn't understand that difference when I ran across the quote I included above. It looks like if I change to a Domain and configure it properly with Wins/Winbind that I should be able to have the single point password changing option occur from the Windows desktop. I am now re-reading sections of my copy of the Definitive Guide to Samba 3 which should help me (although it was published before Vista and 7, which all my workstations are now).
You may also want to look at the samba Franky[1] which could get you enough of samba4 to (from what I understood and want it for) become the full PDC for the windows system, but it is as the name suggests a monster.
[1] https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Franky https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Main_Page#Franky https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Combined_build_issues
[2] http://directory.fedoraproject.org/
In any case, when you get something working, I would like to see the success story here.