RFC [Samba/NIS + LDAP]

["Will Sarka" <wsarka@emperative.com>]

Greetings,

I am an OpenLDAP newbie, and have been doing some cursory examination of 
what might be possible with unifying authentication for my Linux and 
Windows boxes.  I understand Samba can use NIS as a basis of 
authentication, and than the nss_ldap modules allows NIS lookups to be 
done against a LDAP directory.  I currently have no windows servers 
(only a workgroup that I inherented), and am considering using the Samba 
2.2.x codebase to implement a PDC/Domain with a LDAP backend that 
understands NIS (via the nis schema, from what I gather).  Has anyone 
done anything like this?  Any pitfalls?  Howtos?  URLs? :-)

Just exploring my options, I certainly hope to pick up speed quickly on 
OpenLDAP.

Thanks,
Will Sarka