SCO OSR5 and Samba authenticating against LDAP

["Dustin Puryear" <dpuryear@laserctr.com>]

Is it possible to authenticate users under SCO OSR5 against an LDAP
database? Gawd, if I could configure both Samba and OSR5 to use LDAP I could
_almost_ avoid NIS. All I would have left is figuring out how to mount user
homes easily.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-openldap-general@OpenLDAP.org
> [mailto:owner-openldap-general@OpenLDAP.org]On Behalf Of steve hendrikse
> Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 7:40 AM
> To: openldap-general@OpenLDAP.org
> Cc: shendr99ldap@netscape.net
> Subject:
>
>
> hi,
>
> i am just new to this list, so please don't flame me if you think this
> question has been beaten to death.
>
> i have openldap 1.2.10 up and running and my unix machines (using
> pam_ldap)
> can be authenticated to the directory.  I would like to extend
> this to include
> authentication for my microsoft windows nt 4.0 workstation sp6
> machines.  is
> this possible?  every where on the net seems to suggest that this
> is possible,
> but i have not found a location that definitively answers the
> question, and if
> yes, how to do it. Anyone here know an answer and a product
> (freeware/shareware/commercial) that can do this?
>
> thanks in advance,
> steve
>
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