From: Husemann, Harald (harald.husemann@Materna.DE)
Date: Mon Aug 12 2002 - 08:37:21 EDT
Hi Gurus,
I hope this is not off-topic, but it really bothers me:
I'm using NIS as authentication model on some of our Solaris hosts (Solaris
2.6 and higher).
Everything's working fine, and now, I want to synchronize the NIS database
to our Active Directory system (It's a kind of an LDAP-Dir, running under
Microsoft Windows 2000).
There's a toolkit from Microsoft, called "Services for Unix". I've
downloaded the evaluation version, installed it, and it seems to work. I can
configure NIS-Clients to use the Windows-Box as their NIS-server, and when I
change the password on UNIX, it also gets changed on Windows, and vice
versa.
But, now the next step:
I want to setup a NIS-Slave-Server (let's call it Slave), and a
Windows-AD-Server (called Master). These two should stay synchronized, every
time a user is added on Windows, it should also be in the NIS-Database on
the slave server. Then, I'd like to setup another NIS-client, which should
only "see" the slave server. (The reason for this is that on Windows, you
have to inform the server about any added client - and, a special program
has to be run on the client's side, allwoing the password sync)
I got the first step running, the passwords are synchronized - but it seems
the Windows Box does not know anything about its slave (or, "subordinate
server", as Microsoft calls such a host)
Due to the (very small) documentation the Windows server should update the
slave's /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow, and run /var/yp/Makefile every time a
user is added in the Window's ActiveDir-DB.
This doesn't work, I just see error messages in /var/adm/messages, saying
the user is unknown...
Anyone done this before? Or, does someone know where I can find a little
HowTo for this?? Unfortunately, Microsoft's documentation is not very useful
(as usual, :-) )
Thanks for your help, will summarize,
Harald
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Harald Husemann
Systems Engineer
Teammanager Unix Administration and Configuration Management
Materna GmbH
Vo_kuhle 37
D-44141 Dortmund/Germany
Phone: +49-231-5599-8684
Mobile: +49-179-2300651
e-mail: harald.husemann@materna.de
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