[KLUG Members] Re: Great News! -- Samba Lists, pGINA, AcctSync

[Bryan J. Smith]

Quoting Jim C <jcllings@tsunamicomm.net>:
> Ask this question on the samba list.  I'm sure you'll get the responses
> you are looking for. ;-)

Definitely ...  
http://us2.samba.org/samba/archives.html  

BTW, the "pGINA" replacement "GINA" for NT/2K/XP will allow logins to
alternative directory systems, such as LDAP:  
  http://pgina.cs.plu.edu/

If you have a Windows server application that absolutely requires
ActiveDirectory, then consider "segmenting off" that small portion, and making
ActiveDirectory "submissive" to OpenLDAP.  That's exactly what the Florida
Institute of Technology (FIT) did across their entire WAN backbone of thousands
of systems:  
  http://acctsync.sourceforge.net  

Whatever you do, _never_ put ActiveDirectory in charge of your entire Enterprise.

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