samba - Apr 2002 - multiple samba machines and accounts

What is the best way to add an additional samba server to a samba PDC
network?  Can I use winbind to populate the unix passwd file or should I use
NIS and then security = domain?  There are only two samba machines here and
I need to get the accounts right on the unix and smb side.  Any help much
appreciated.  Looking to do this right from the beginning.


Best regards,

Andrew Judge

On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 09:54, Andrew Judge wrote:
> What is the best way to add an additional samba server to a samba PDC
> network?  Can I use winbind to populate the unix passwd file or should I
use
> NIS and then security = domain?  There are only two samba machines here and
> I need to get the accounts right on the unix and smb side.  Any help much
> appreciated.  Looking to do this right from the beginning.
> 
Andrew,
I found that using an LDAP server to store all account information
provides the flexibility you want. Once you get a new machine up, just
tell it to get the account information from the LDAP server, and you're
done. For more information I recommend http://samba.idealx.org.

Thomas