We have not worked with Solaris much, and our contract Solaris guy has very little experience with Winbind. So, we are like two blind people touching opposite ends of the elephant and trying to come to a solution. (No comments please on which end I drew...) :-)
The question involves authentication in a native mode Windows 2000 Active Directory domain. Is there any reason Samba/Winbind running on Solaris could not be used for authenticating users who want to access resources on the Solaris box against the AD user/group accounts? We have done this with a SuSE box, but never with a Solaris box (yet!). Currently, the Solaris system (9 now, upgrading to 10 later this year...) is manually populated with a set of *NIX user accounts that mirror the accounts in AD. This creates a lot of administrative overhead (there are some 300+ user accounts, and employee turnover is by nature fairly high), and will create even more help desk issues as the AD environment is about to implement a GPO forcing frequent password changes. Any major "gotchas" we should watch out for? Thanks, Mark -- _________________________________________________________ A Message From... L. Mark Stone Reliable Networks of Maine, LLC "We manage your network so you can manage your business." 477 Congress Street Portland, ME 04101 Tel: (207) 772-5678 Web: http://www.rnome.com -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
