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Samba vs. NIS vs. LDAP



On Thu, October 5, 2006 7:56 am, Bill Ricker wrote:
> Samba+LDAP are ubiquitous in office type environments, where wintel
> coexists with operating systems. I'd guess you'll get more questions
> about Samba+LDAP with IA64 RHEL from your external clients than NIS.
> I wonder which will be more exciting when Vista hits.

I was going to say essentially the same thing.  At my job, *everything* feeds off the
LDAP, from the automatically generated phone list to Subversion, to the timecard system
to the mail server to the intranet wiki.


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