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 backup servers?
1) Use LDAP with replication instead of /etc/passwd 2) Rsync /home as part of a cronjob across all the servers 3) Ensure that you can run LDAP traffic across the VPN (If you;re not already, try using openvpn - it rocks!). HTH, M. -- Matthew Macdonald-Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk/ -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
