The original topic was about OS X and AD. So I'm curious if you're integrating any Windows systems on the network you describe.
Equally off-topic (but related), I'd like to avoid AD altogether and going with something like Samba-LDAP-PDC (pdf). You should be able to include all the apple, posix, and samba objects you need and get a single directory to catalog the contents of the whole network and authenticate everyone. Using nss_ldap and pam_ldap, there would not even be any LDAP-NIS synching behind the scenes.
Isn't this what LDAP (or any good directory technology) is supposed to be all about?
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The original topic was about OS X and AD. So I'm curious if you're integrating any Windows systems on the network you describe.
Equally off-topic (but related), I'd like to avoid AD altogether and going with something like Samba-LDAP-PDC (pdf). You should be able to include all the apple, posix, and samba objects you need and get a single directory to catalog the contents of the whole network and authenticate everyone. Using nss_ldap and pam_ldap, there would not even be any LDAP-NIS synching behind the scenes.
Isn't this what LDAP (or any good directory technology) is supposed to be all about?