samba - Apr 2003 - How to read NT Domain accounts from a Unix box

Hi,
Is there any open way of reading user/group accounts of a NT 
Domain from a Unix box? I guess, rpcclient is more like a hack of 
MS protocol.
Is it the only way currently? Can anyone give more information on 
this?

Thanks in advance.
Ravi
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What I do is a two-step process, kinda kludgy, but works well.

1.) on the NT box, from scheduler, I run the 'addusers /d' command (from
the resource kit) dumping all user/group data to a file in an ftp root
directory. This runs every 5 minutes.

2.) from the NIS master Linux box, I grab the file via ftp, parse it and modify
all of my NIS user and group info to match Windows. This way I can add/remove
all users and groups in Windows, and this script keeps the users and groups in
NIS in sync.

If anyone wants a copy of the script and conf files, let me know.

Regards,

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Manager of Information Systems
InfiniCon Systems
http://www.infiniconsys.com



-----Original Message-----
From: ravi kiran [mailto:sigkill@rediffmail.com]
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 10:45 PM
To: samba@lists.samba.org
Subject: [Samba] How to read NT Domain accounts from a Unix box


Hi,
Is there any open way of reading user/group accounts of a NT 
Domain from a Unix box? I guess, rpcclient is more like a hack of 
MS protocol.
Is it the only way currently? Can anyone give more information on 
this?

Thanks in advance.
Ravi
_______________________________________________________________________
Odomos - the only  mosquito protection outside 4 walls -
Click here to know more!
http://r.rediff.com/r?http://clients.rediff.com/odomos/Odomos.htm&&odomos&&wn

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