Re: Samba and Win95/98 drive mounts

[Adam Tauno Williams <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>Or LDAP.  I think you gain alot of ancillary benefits
>>by choosing LDAP over NIS.
>Yes, but what I'm looking for is a way for an LDAP server to
>transparently support NIS clients (that don't have an LDAP option). 
>I'm also interested in how LDAP can be used to distribute
>automounter map and other service info.

The NSS LDAP module provided with RedHat and the appropriate flags in
/etc/nsswitch.conf let you use LDAP for the automounter, and just about
everything else that runs through NSS.
 
>>I wrote a LDAP->NIS replicator for supporting old UNIXs
>>that don't understand LDAP.
>>http://ldapconsole.sourceforge.net
>First off, I will _definately_ check this out.  Secondly, the only
>solution I've seen for "transparent" NIS client support was a costly
>commercial one (cannot remember the company).

Yep, your talking about ypldapd, for about $1300 a host.  WAY to much money in
my book.  So I wrote ldap2nis.  It is NOT as nice as ypldap because you still
have to run a NIS server and invoke ldap2nis when changes occur,  while ypldapd
does it all in memory and "online".  But it works well enough for my couple of
hundred users.  Samba kicks it off whenever anyone changes their password,  and
CRON runs it once at night just in case.


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