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We are a primarily Linux company with a NIS backend, but we keep a couple "bridge boxes" for Windows users (on a Windows PDC) to connect to their unix accounts and access data. Under Samba 2.2, this was fairly easy with "encrypt passwords = no" turned on. But I can't figure out how to make it work with Samba 3. Does Samba 3 not support a unix passwd backend, or am I

Is it possible to use rsync to mirror a group of files, deleteing most files from the mirror when they disappear from the source, but not deleting a certain set of files that match a pattern if they disappear from the source? Thanks. Greg Brauer greg@wildbrain.com

...from that is about 100,000 files long, the execution time goes up to about 20 minutes or more, compared with a couple of seconds to just let rsync do all of the files. (In both tests, the target is already completely up-to-date). Is there any way to do this more quickly? Thanks. Greg Brauer greg@wildbrain.com

I know this might not be the best place for this, but I'm hoping someone else has done this or knows what I need to do. We have a Linux LDAP Server (OpenLDAP 2.0.27) serving unix accounts to Linux and OS X machines. To get it to serve to OS X machines, I copied over the 'apple.schema' from an OS X box. Itr seems this schema file depends on things defined in the Samba 2.x schema