[sllug-members]: LDAP and Windows

[M. Alton jensen]

Adam Barrett wrote:
> I just starting looking into maintaining my users globally on my
> network, and I was wondering, LDAP looks to be the best way to handle
> users and logins for the whole, network, will it also support my
> windows logins? Pros and cons?

You can use Samba as your PDC with an LDAP backend.  We were able to get
this up and running at my previous employer.  It was really nice to have
a central location for almost all of our login credentials
(e-mail,Windows,http-auth.)  If you google for samba and ldap, you'll
find a bunch of howtos.  Since it can be a critical single point of
failure, I strongly recommend that you setup replication for your LDAP
server.

-Alt