> In your case, you should look at samba with the LDAP backend. This will allow > all data to be in LDAP for the non-Windows boxes, and the Windows clients > would treat it as an NT4 styled domain. OK, I'm just really new at Centos-DS, but it looks to me like it will simplify this task for you. I just finally got it set up, and authentication working for Linux SSH login, as well as Apache. This is all really easy stuff, now that I know how to do it. Even if it did take me a week or more to figure out how to get here :-) But in browsing around inn the Centos-DS admin tool, it seems to have a whole whack of NT Domain stuff built in. And I see HOWTOs out there for Samba. http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Documentation#Howtos You should join the 389-ds mailing list. https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users I have not yet jumped into any of the NT stuff, but I'll be going there soon. cheers, -Alan -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food"