On Apr 21, 2011, at 11:51 AM, m.roth at 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