samba - Nov 2001 - Sync of samba passwords between two UNIX samba servers possible?

Hi everyone,

I have set up two seperate AIX4.2.1 samba servers, and due to this, every
time a user changes his Novell password, they (or more likely, I) have to
change their passwords on both seperate samba servers (login is duplicating
the novel/NT login password combination so that the filesystems are mapped
automatically when they boot up).

My question is :-

Is it possible to synchronise two UNIX samba servers so that one updates
the samba passwords of the other (A kind of Master/Slave setup, maybe???)?
If yes, how is it done (detailed)?

If not? Is there an alternative setup method which avoids the duplication
of password changing at every stage.

I can't really muck around with the NT password system as this is
administered
by another department and the same goes for the UNIX password propagation,
which is done by Tivoli.

Any useful reponse and tips to this problem would be welcome.

Cheers
Gary Heath - UNIX administrator/NT and UNIX System Release Manager



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> Hi everyone,
> 
> I have set up two seperate AIX4.2.1 samba servers, and due to this, every
> time a user changes his Novell password, they (or more likely, I) have to
> change their passwords on both seperate samba servers (login is duplicating
> the novel/NT login password combination so that the filesystems are mapped
> automatically when they boot up).
> 
> My question is :-
> 
> Is it possible to synchronise two UNIX samba servers so that one updates
> the samba passwords of the other (A kind of Master/Slave setup, maybe???)?
> If yes, how is it done (detailed)?
> 
> If not? Is there an alternative setup method which avoids the duplication
> of password changing at every stage.
> 
> I can't really muck around with the NT password system as this is
administered
> by another department and the same goes for the UNIX password propagation,
> which is done by Tivoli.
> 
> Any useful reponse and tips to this problem would be welcome.
If you use plaintext passwords: use NIS and have the passwords and 
accounts syncted.
If you use encrypted passwords: use NIS for the accounts and set 
"password server = xyz" in smb.conf in on of the servers, probably 
the NIS slave.
If you want fault tolerance (network failier, working second if the 
first stopps...) you can use rsync.

Christian


 
> Cheers
> Gary Heath - UNIX administrator/NT and UNIX System Release Manager
> 
> 
> 
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