On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 13:25 -0600, Dennis B. Hopp wrote: > I'm setting up a small network and I would like to have centralized > authentication. I have no need for active directory so samba makes sense. > > The desktops will be running Windows XP but there are a few other > servers (a linux mail server, web server and file server) that I would > like to be able to use the centralized authentication with. > > So my question is, is it better to configure samba as a PDC for the > windows clients and then use NIS for the other linux servers, or just > use samba for all authentication (i.e. the mail server and web server > will be member servers in the samba domain)? ---- LDAP is what would make sense - scales well, replicates, portable, combines UNIX/Samba users into one object.
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