Re: Samba and Win95/98 drive mounts

["Bryan J. Smith" <b.j.smith@xxxxxxxx>]

Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, I've seen the NSS LDAP stuff (OSS from the same company that
makes ypldapd, right?).  I didn't know it could do so much.

> Yep, your talking about ypldapd, for about $1300 a host.
> WAY to much money in my book.

Yep, totally agree.

> 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".

Well maybe I can get involved and help out.  I have been meaning to
do some socket programming.

> 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.

I have a hell of a time getting password synchronization to work
with Samba under both RedHat 6.2 and the latest 7.1, with and
without NIS.  What's your secret?

-- TheBS

P.S.  Note my "alterior motives" ... see:
   http://www.smithconcepts.com/projects

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