samba - Sep 2002 - User sync between SAMBA domains?

Hi,

Newbie as a am to this list,

Bjorn Enroth wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Newbie as a am to this list,
>
>>From what I can find out from the archives it's not possible to set
up trust
>relationship between two samba PDC's, BUT - Is there a way to
synchronize
>users between the domains? eg, can I with rsync over SSH sync the unix
>passwd file and the samba smbpasswd file with the other PDC? This causes of
>course a delay in password changing, but I can buy that... Oh, I know there
>are security issues with this too... Are there any better way to do this?
>
>TIA
>Bjorn
>
>  
>
try it with LDAP, this should be possible with the domain attribute and 
ldap-filters in the smb.conf

I feel a little like a broken record  but ....

I think ldap is the right choice here too.

You can either set up one ldap server and have both samba machines use
it for authentication or set up two (one on each box) and use slurpd to
handle the replication.

brad
On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 04:51, Bjorn Enroth wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Newbie as a am to this list,
> 
> >From what I can find out from the archives it's not possible to set
up trust
> relationship between two samba PDC's, BUT - Is there a way to
synchronize
> users between the domains? eg, can I with rsync over SSH sync the unix
> passwd file and the samba smbpasswd file with the other PDC? This causes of
> course a delay in password changing, but I can buy that... Oh, I know there
> are security issues with this too... Are there any better way to do this?
> 
> TIA
> Bjorn
> 
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