hallo I have a task to reorganize the network resources of a medium company (~150 computers, 80% windows) which in the current state is very chaotic I was thinking of a system where the users are stored in a single place, from where applications like mail (postfix), squid and even a domain controller can retrieve information from your past experience, which does a better job - ldap or users stored in a mysql database ? I would appreciate your feedback or some links (I already have googled around and found several sources from where I am reading right now) I would like to have the same user/password for at least mail & domain logon thank you for your time, petre -- Petre Bandac Network Scientist - petre@kgb.ro
I'm a ldap fan. LDAP could be used to centralize all kind of app and system you could need, even intranet accounts, samba, a replace for nis, postfix, qmail, and so on. On 9/15/07, Petre Bandac <petre@kgb.ro> wrote:> hallo > > I have a task to reorganize the network resources of a medium company > (~150 computers, 80% windows) which in the current state is very chaotic > > I was thinking of a system where the users are stored in a single place, > from where applications like mail (postfix), squid and even a domain > controller can retrieve information > > from your past experience, which does a better job - ldap or users > stored in a mysql database ? I would appreciate your feedback or some > links (I already have googled around and found several sources from > where I am reading right now) > > I would like to have the same user/password for at least mail & domain logon > > thank you for your time, > > petre > -- > > Petre Bandac > > Network Scientist > > - > petre@kgb.ro > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba >
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Petre Bandac wrote:> hallo > > I have a task to reorganize the network resources of a medium company > (~150 computers, 80% windows) which in the current state is very chaotic > > I was thinking of a system where the users are stored in a single place, > from where applications like mail (postfix), squid and even a domain > controller can retrieve information > > from your past experience, which does a better job - ldap or users > stored in a mysql database ? I would appreciate your feedback or some > links (I already have googled around and found several sources from > where I am reading right now) > > I would like to have the same user/password for at least mail & domain > logon > > thank you for your time, > > petreAt least as far as Samba goes, I could have sworn MySQL received less attention as a backend (possibly even having been removed). There are probably ways to sync MySQL with LDAP that are fairly painless, but this really seems like something that one would do with LDAP anyhow. - -- ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - Systems Programmer II |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |novosirj@umdnj.edu - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/AST - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG6/+zmb+gadEcsb4RAhDHAKCL7MQgjIIzzk1N+NLfARQvrFAU4QCfWbkb xemH/wkdJLTzITxi2CVTvK4=KHS2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Petre Bandac schrieb:> hallo > > I have a task to reorganize the network resources of a medium company > (~150 computers, 80% windows) which in the current state is very chaotic > > I was thinking of a system where the users are stored in a single place, > from where applications like mail (postfix), squid and even a domain > controller can retrieve information > > from your past experience, which does a better job - ldap or users > stored in a mysql database ? I would appreciate your feedback or some > links (I already have googled around and found several sources from > where I am reading right now) > > I would like to have the same user/password for at least mail & domain > logonI would say MySQL is not an "officially recommended" way of storing Samba users. -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://blog.wpkg.org