I have just read the "UNIX Interoperability in Windows Server 2003 R2" and after looking at the online demo it looks like we can now import all our NIS stuff into AD.
It seems that Active Directory can act as a NIS server and can give us a single password for all us Solaris / Windows environments sites. I am not sure what needs to installed on the Solaris side. Questions 1) Microsoft & Sun have been talking for about a year and MS have come up with a simple (a few button pushes) solution which may work, but Sun have still not got anything worth talking about and the "System Identity Synchronization for Windows" works if the wind is in the right direction.... Question 2) I don't see any choice for Solaris Administrators in a mixed environments to ditch there NIS/LDAP unix servers and let AD do all the work. Any Tom, Dick and Harry can now setup a windows box to take control of Solaris information systems.... Thoughts.... Andrew This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
