Topic: Authenticate to Netware?

[david rose]

Hello Everyone!
  At work we primarily run Netware servers (appx. 165 users) -- but the question I have is this.  Netware has an LDAP server module, which I assume I could use to export the user-accounts in NDS (NDS is Novell's version of LDAP for user authentication.)

  Does anyone know how I would tweak my SME 5.1.2 server to authenticate not to it's own LDAP server, but to my Netware's LDAP server?  

  This configuration would allow me to put up a PDC for my Windows 2000 workstations for domain logins, and I assume the user accounts there (samba PDC) would be created and deleted from my Netware user list in real time?

Dave

[Jeff Pancrazio]

I am very interested in this also!..

[Chris G.]

Any word on this?  It would be awesome for such convergence of these server platforms.  


Chris

[herb w]

Any new progress on this?  I have been attempting this for quite a while.

Herb

[dave rose]

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> I have been attempting this for quite a while.

None yet.  Been looking into this in my leisure time.  How have you been attempting this?  What is your methodology to get this to work?  

I believe that if I could get a Linux SME server to authenticate a user at the login prompt from a master LDAP server, then we can set the Samba on that LDAP-slave to authenitcate from a domain server, we would be close to an answer.

I tried copying LDAP libraries from a Redhat 7.2 machine I have, and then making what I believe are the appropriate soft links, and then ran AUTHCONFIG in hopes to correctly edit the .CONF files in /etc and beyond.  This did not allow me to authenticate from another server.  Although I'm not sure I had the context-information correct.

I did not really try to replicate the database to slave PCs because in my opinion that would require work on every PC whenever a new server is added.

Dave