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Thanks for your response but the question really wasn't answered. &nbsp;Part of it was answered, but the most important part wasn't. &nbsp;I need to know about a master list possibility in a heterogenous environment of UNIX/NT.<br />

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Thanks for your response but the question really wasn't answered.  Part of it was answered, but the most important part wasn't.  I need to know about a master list possibility in a heterogenous environment of UNIX/NT.


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You will have to get a third party product for the Unix system or for the NT system to make a homogenous common directory service, Unix does not support in general the NT standards and MS is infamous for making their own protocols even if they don't work with any other kind of system.<br />
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Samba is a UNIX product (free with source code) that lets you connect NT machines to UNIX boxes, it has to handle security issues so it could be an start point.<br />

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You will have to get a third party product for the Unix system or for the NT system to make a homogenous common directory service, Unix does not support in general the NT standards and MS is infamous for making their own protocols even if they don't work with any other kind of system.

Samba is a UNIX product (free with source code) that lets you connect NT machines to UNIX boxes, it has to handle security issues so it could be an start point.


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I am doing research about NT and UNIX. &nbsp;I was wondering how NT and UNIX access directory services?(User lists and password lists) &nbsp;Is there a way that there could be a master list that the two could share and how does/would that work? &nbsp;Send me mail at joemd@sequent.com. &nbsp;Another thing, how do applications access user/password lists? &nbsp;Please be clear and indepth in your answers.
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I am doing research about NT and UNIX.  I was wondering how NT and UNIX access directory services?(User lists and password lists)  Is there a way that there could be a master list that the two could share and how does/would that work?  Send me mail at joemd@sequent.com.  Another thing, how do applications access user/password lists?  Please be clear and indepth in your answers.

Directory Services (UNIX &amp; NT)

Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 at Bell Labs. Today, it is a modern OS with many commercial flavors and licensees, including FreeBSD, Hewlett-Packard’s UX, IBM AIX and Apple Mac OS-X. Apart from its command-line interface, most UNIX variations support the standardized X Window System for GUIs, with the exception of the Mac OS, which uses a proprietary system.

Directory Services (UNIX &amp; NT)

Directory Services (UNIX & NT)