On Friday 31 July 2009 15:05:29 Craig White wrote: <snip> > > 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: > > > > 1. Howto:migtate existing NIS to CentosDS > > 2. 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 -- Dept. of Comp. Sci. University of Limerick.