[K12OSN] samba .tdb to ldap?

[john]

Hi all,

Steve: I want to have more than one linux server and the Linux/samba
user/passwords will be out of sync if I don't have central auth (am I
missing something obvious?)

Brian: I'll look into netvampire.

All: Any other ideas are appreciated!

John

On 6/18/07, Steven Santos <steven at simplycircus.com> wrote:
> Why aren't you just joining the other LTSP servers to the domain?
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com]On
> > Behalf Of Brian Chivers
> > Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 4:02 AM
> > To: Support list for open source software in schools.
> > Subject: Re: [K12OSN] samba .tdb to ldap?
> >
> >
> > john wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I am trying a different subject heading since the last question got
> > > know responses. The question remains the same: Thanks!
> > >
> > > -------------
> > >
> > > On 6/15/07, john <lists.john at gmail.com wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I have successfully joined my linux file server to our Windows domain
> > > and "getent passwd" shows me a nice list of windows users with unix
> > > uid/gid mappings. Now I want to use this server to provide LDAP auth
> > > for several LTSP servers as well as export users home directories via
> > > nfs.
> > >
> > > How can I store the user files  that winbind knows about in LDAP
> > > rather than in winbindd_idmap.tdb ? I don't need this  server to be a
> > > PDC or even a BDC, I just need it to do file stores for windows
> > > clients and provide my authentication information for other LTSP
> > > servers.
> > >
> > > Would I be better off just rsyncing my *.tdb's every day or so? If so
> > > which ones?
> > >
> > > I'd love to hear there was a tool that can just suck out the
> > > information winbind has gleaned and splat it into LDAP.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > John
> > >
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> > Just an idea could you not use the "net vampire" command to pull
> > all the accounts over ? I've never
> > used it myself but looks like you might be a start :-)
> >
> > Brian Chivers
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