[K12OSN] samba .tdb to ldap?

Brian Chivers brian at portsmouth-college.ac.uk
Mon Jun 18 08:01:44 UTC 2007


john wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am trying a different subject heading since the last question got
> know responses. The question remains the same: Thanks!
> 
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> 
> 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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