Best way to share printers, passwords, etc. on a network of Linux boxes.

[Gregory Gulik]

I have a small home network with 6 Linux boxes (5 Fedora and 1 server 
still running RH9) and just one Windows XP box.  Everything is behind a 
firewall and only the RH9 server has some of it's ports accessible from 
the Internet.

Even though it's not a lot of systems I'm constantly running into issues 
of having to manually update configurations on all the systems including 
logins, passwords and printers.

What are people using to share all this that quick and easy and 
relatively secure?

I've considered using NIS or NIS+ but also LDAP.  I have not been able 
to find a tutorial on how to set up any of those that make any sense.

Any advice?

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Greg Gulik                                 http://www.gulik.org/greg/
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