Automatically sharing home directories

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Eric S. Johansson Wrote: 
> Benjamin Zeller wrote:

> > 

> > 

> > Use LDAP ;-)

> 

> having acquired much much scar tissue in a previous life dealing with 

> LDAP and authentication, has it become simple enough yet to just turn
> on 

> LDAP, enter usernames and passwords and have it just work?



No. You'll be lucky to get it working in 30 days, nevermind 30 minutes.
It's still only for the truly battle-hardened, I'm afraid.



Now, about your issue -- samba has a setting to synchronize password
files, IIRC. Ah, here we go: Edit your /etc/samba/smb.conf and set unix
password sync = yes.


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wylfing