Re: OpenLDAP

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On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 12:18:26PM -0500, Robert Hartung* wrote:
>   I am a little confused in the early stages of looking ino LDAP.  I have a 
> small medical office, about 45-50 PCs, that are a mix of Win98, WinNT, Win2K, 
> and Linux [file server as Samba and print server at this stage].  No WinXP 
> yet.  
>   I am looking for a single authentication server process that is cross-
> platform.  It is my understanding that LDAP can serve this purpose.  Is this a 
> correct assumption?  If not I can start looking down another avenue.

>From what I've heard, Windows doesn't really authenticate against LDAP
that well.  You might be better off using winbind on your Linux server
to authenticate against your domain.  If you don't have a domain yet,
you could make the LInux server be the PDC.
 
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