[gentoo-server] switch NIS to LDAP

[RagNoRoc]

Let me get some background out there first. The environment I am going to be talking about has a few hundred windows machines, a handful of windows2003 servers, a few dozen quad processor solaris servers and an unmeasurable amount of Linux boxes running Gentoo and RedHat. The environment has over 3,000 active accounts and at any given time there are at least 100 people logged in.

Currently you must have 2 logins, one for windows and one for unix. We are using Active Directory on a domain controller machine to do the windows logins and we have NIS for all the UNIX machines. We are putting a plan together to use a LDAP server to make a unified login for the operating systems involved.

I have a gentoo box setup which I plan to install LDAP on, then import all the NIS information in and test cross platform logins with. Has anyone worked with NIS to LDAP conversions or have experience with getting non-linux operating systems to use LDAP (instead of a windows domain controller for example)?

Also any comments on which LDAP we should try out? We were thinking of the Netscape one that RedHat has but nothing has been set in stone yet.

Thanks for any help.

Kirk