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Tom Potts wrote: > On Sunday 14 June 2009 07:49, Tom Potts wrote: > >> On Saturday 13 June 2009 23:17, Grant Sewell wrote: >> ... >> >> >>> With regard to "domain controllers". Essentially a Windows Active >>> Directory Domain consists of LDAP with Kerberos... however, they seem to >>> have been put together in a rather unholy manner by Microsoft (or at >>> least I'm finding it a P.I.T.A trying to get Linux to auth against our >>> SBS2008 "domain controller"). This has been the case since Windows >>> Server 2000. >>> >> http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba%2C_Active_Directory_%26_LDAP >> of any use? >> Tom te tom te tom >> > And its just occurred to me that I used to write code that set up users and > passwords on NT4 and it wouldn't be too hard to write a small (web?)app to > allow user creation/deletion/modification/group control on both controllers > so the admins and users only really see a single sign-on approach. > Tom te tom te tom > I'm confused, why would this be needed? I mean the Windows machines will talk to a Samba server acting as a domain controller anyway, and I gather that it's a pretty small network that Richard has. If he's running SME Server as his Linux server it has a nice easy to use web interface anyway for adding/removing/editing users, groups and shares. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html