Here at Brooklyn Law School, we use Fedora DS together with a samba schema quite succesfully. All students and most faculty log in to lab computers and desktops that are members of a Samba domain. We avoid using NT servers as much as possible for open source reasons, but our faculty is hoping we can move them to an exchange server running on NT 2003. In a test environment, we were able to get password sync happening between an NT server and a replica of our DS, but are wondering how to keep our samba passwords updated. Currently, we have a web front end pointed at a perl script loosely based on the smb-ldap scripts from IDEALX. These keep our sambantpassword, sambalmpassword, and unix passwords synced. If we continue to use this script to update passwords on Fedora DS, will fedora pick up the password and send it down to the windows server? I assume there is not much I could do to get it to work in the other direction, which would be ok -- we would require users to continue to change their passwords through our web front end. Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Phil Allred
