Ask Slashdot:Fun with LDAP

Clarence Washington jr. writes "Is there a LDAP server available for Linux? What I am looking for is an LDAP server that would enable a network administrator to have a central database for user, resource, and server accounts. The server would also need to incorporate a robust directory replication mechanism. Combined with Samba, I could use Linux as a file server platform in a Windows environment and NOT have to maintain separate user and resource accounts on every server (difficult to manage in a multiple server or enterprise environment). I would imagine that this would need Windows client software as well to enable directory authentication versus direct server authentication