I have everything in place to move to a Samba/Heimdal/OpenLDAP auth database and have just discovered that some of the Windows products we use are required to run on a domain controller. Since domain sync doesn't work between Samba and NT4 it looks like I'm stuck: either ditch all the software we run on domain controllers, stay with our current 2-auth-db system, or move at least our Windows machines to AD, none of which I want to do. I appears that XAD 2.0 may be able to do what I want, and I'm checking on it's availablity, but I was wondering if anyone has any bright ideas for getting the Samba PDC to do what I want. Right now it looks like the best thing to do is to hack up a sync tool for WinNT <-> OpenLDAP to keep the passwords in sync. Thanks for any information, ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | Jim Hranicky, Senior SysAdmin UF/CISE Department | | E314D CSE Building Phone (352) 392-1499 | | jfh@cise.ufl.edu http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~jfh | ----------------------------------------------------------------------
James F. Hranicky wrote:> I have everything in place to move to a Samba/Heimdal/OpenLDAP auth > database and have just discovered that some of the Windows products > we use are required to run on a domain controller. Since domain > sync doesn't work between Samba and NT4 it looks like I'm stuck: > either ditch all the software we run on domain controllers, stay with > our current 2-auth-db system, or move at least our Windows machines > to AD, none of which I want to do. > > I appears that XAD 2.0 may be able to do what I want, and I'm checking > on it's availablity, but I was wondering if anyone has any bright ideas > for getting the Samba PDC to do what I want. Right now it looks like the > best thing to do is to hack up a sync tool for WinNT <-> OpenLDAP to keep > the passwords in sync. >Hi James, Would you mind letting us know what product requires to be installed on a domain controller? I, for one, would like to shy away from ever evaluating their product. Regards, Doug