On Apr 21, 2011, at 11:51 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
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.
<snip> > 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.
Yes, agreed OpenLDAP is my suggestion as well.
As for Windows clients, you can either do;
Samba/LDAP tie in so that your LDAP domain also function as a PDC.
Or you can use pGina which is a Windows LDAP plugin that allows your Windows clients to auth direct to LDAP w/o the need to join a PDC first.
I prefer pGina but its not for every one.
- aurf