[K12OSN] samba .tdb to ldap?

[Steven Santos]

Why aren't you just joining the other LTSP servers to the domain?

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Steven Santos
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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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