samba - Aug 2000 - Samba vs Solaris PC-Netlink

Does anyone have any idea how Solaris PC-Netlink compares to Samba?

It seems to support ACLs (does Samba?)

Also, how do they both do on the subject of being a domain controller?

What I am looking for is ACL support (I am getting tired of making every
possible combination of groups to deal with user needs).

I also want LDAP support whereby changing the passwd from an NT system
changes both the unix (crypt) passwd and the NT (obfuscated) passwd.

Even better if running "passwd" on a Unix NIS client would
change both using the Solaris Extensions for Directory Server.  The
latter I should be able to hack together by starting with a free
yppasswdd implementation.

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Gary asked:
| Does anyone have any idea how Solaris PC-Netlink compares to Samba?

Sure: I did a paper on it this spring, I'll see if it's been published
yet.
In the meantime:

- it does ACLS, but stores them in a file, which you need to save
  during backups. They **do not** control access from the Unix side.

- it will happily be a domain controller

- it doesn't do ldap

- it doesn't do single-signon (yet)

- The 1.2 version is faster than it was, so the client limit
  in no longer 1000 or less.

--dave
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