Re: Complete migration from Scientific Linux with new features (Samba+AD/Winbind)

gregorcy <[email protected]> Sat, 29 Oct 2011 10:52:23 -0600

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What's missing: OpenLDAP replication from AD? Is this possible? Is this
> needed? Since I want another machines (running Linux) to authenticate it
> will be a good idea only ONE machine get information from AD and everyone
> else authenticate natively on this Gentoo Machine.



No this is not needed.  If you are in a mixed environment (I think) it is
much easier to just use AD as the one directory service and join all your
linux boxes to it.  As long as your idmap ranges match your users will have
the same uid on all boxes.


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Brian Gregorcy
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