[Gllug] Help Needed for windows to linux migration

Jason Clifford jason at ukpost.com
Mon Oct 20 16:33:43 UTC 2003


On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Tethys wrote:

> Cough! NIS is trivial to configure, and it's even reliable, but it's
> not tolerant of failures. LDAP on the other hand really *is* a bitch
> to configure, but will probably work better in the long run. For NIS,
> you just "cd /var/yp && make"

If you read through the docs LDAP is actually fairly easy to set up.

There are tools available to setup the required databases for system 
accounts, etc., including expansion to cover Samba accounts and other 
directories using the same data.

Jason Clifford
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