Hi Jody, Looks like what you want is MS SFU (Services for Unix 2.0 or 3.0).
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/default.asp http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/techinfo/administration/20/nis.asp You may already have 2.0. I haven't been able to determine if it was included. 3.0 is available for $99 from Microsoft. It includes an NIS server. Once that's running, you can configure your linux boxes to authenticate with the NIS server. In this way, no new accounts need be created on the linux boxes. I've done this with other Unix variants, but you may need to look around to find out how to do this in Linux. There may be an alternative. You could run an NIS server on linux and with some utility, sync the NIS server with the Active Directory. But I've haven't found it yet. And it would probably still require SFU. Personally, I would go with the first option. Hope this helps, Feel free to contact me if you need further information. ~Brandon [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 06:49, Jody Cleveland wrote: > Hi Brandon, > > > That's not going to do what I think you want. Let's get you a > > solution. > > I very much appreciate your time! > > > 1. Are you trying to sync your linux user db with windows user db? > > yes > > > 2. Approximately how many linux hosts/windows hosts. > > We have three linux boxes and about 300-400 windows boxes. We are starting > to migrate certain things off of Windows onto Linux. We've got about 500 > users, so I'd rather not have to manually create that many users and try to > get all of their passwords. That, and I'm hoping to avoid headaches when > users change passwords every 60 days. > > > 3. Are you using (on windows) local accounts, domain > > accounts, or active directory accounts. > > They started out as domain accounts, but have been switched over to active > directory accounts. All our servers are win2k, except for one exchange box > that is a backup domain controller. > > Thanks again for your time! > > > -- > Jody Cleveland > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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