Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using SAMBA to create users across multiple servers

2008-09-12 Thread Neil Greenwood
2008/9/11 Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Neil Greenwood wrote: 2008/9/10 Matthew Macdonald-Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quoting Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi folks, This is a bit of a long shot but I thought I'd ask anyway... snip Now I was wondering if it was possible with Samba to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using SAMBA to create users across multiple servers

2008-09-12 Thread Rob Beard
Neil Greenwood wrote: Regarding your other question about LDAP guides, in one of the issues Chris Brown (the author of the articles) mentions the two references he uses for LDAP. I can't remember what they are, nor which issue - although I have a feeling it might be the first one. Vague I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using SAMBA to create users across multiple servers

2008-09-12 Thread Rob Beard
Neil Greenwood wrote: Regarding your other question about LDAP guides, in one of the issues Chris Brown (the author of the articles) mentions the two references he uses for LDAP. I can't remember what they are, nor which issue - although I have a feeling it might be the first one. Vague I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using SAMBA to create users across multiple servers

2008-09-11 Thread Neil Greenwood
2008/9/10 Matthew Macdonald-Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quoting Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi folks, This is a bit of a long shot but I thought I'd ask anyway... snip Now I was wondering if it was possible with Samba to configure it so when a new Samba account is created, an equivalent

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using SAMBA to create users across multiple servers

2008-09-11 Thread Rob Beard
Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: Quoting Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi folks, This is a bit of a long shot but I thought I'd ask anyway... snip Now I was wondering if it was possible with Samba to configure it so when a new Samba account is created, an equivalent *nix login account and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using SAMBA to create users across multiple servers

2008-09-11 Thread Rob Beard
Neil Greenwood wrote: 2008/9/10 Matthew Macdonald-Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quoting Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi folks, This is a bit of a long shot but I thought I'd ask anyway... snip Now I was wondering if it was possible with Samba to configure it so when a new Samba account is

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using SAMBA to create users across multiple servers

2008-09-11 Thread Oliver Marks
Another option to look into is ebox which uses ldap as its backend, I have yet to try this but it looks good and is available for debian and ubuntu. Sme Server is a good option last time i used it though, it had no ldap backend for managing users and replication but you can just copy the users

[ubuntu-uk] Using SAMBA to create users across multiple servers

2008-09-10 Thread Rob Beard
Hi folks, This is a bit of a long shot but I thought I'd ask anyway... I'm in the process of setting up a server for a friend who has offices over two sites connected via a VPN. He mainly has Windows machines which he wants to put on a domain. I suggested using Linux rather than Windows 2003

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using SAMBA to create users across multiple servers

2008-09-10 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
Quoting Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi folks, This is a bit of a long shot but I thought I'd ask anyway... snip Now I was wondering if it was possible with Samba to configure it so when a new Samba account is created, an equivalent *nix login account and home directory is created on the