Thanks for all who responded. Here is my original request:
> Is there any way to get my NT server to query NIS+ services for login
> proceedures? I'd rather not have to create accounts on both Solaris and NT
> servers.
>
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> Jason D. Lindholm
> Software Engineer
> Conley Corporation
> Phone: (617) 441-5600 x124
> mailto://jason@conley.com
> http://www.conley.com
Here are the answers:
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> 'Fraid not. NT and UNIX passwords are encrypted completely
>differently. NT uses a reversible hashed encryption method (so plain
>text passwords are never sent over the network); UNIX uses a
>non-reversible DES encryption.
>
> You can go some way to making this easier by installing SAMBA
>(home page http://lake.canberra.edu.au/pup/samba ). SAMBA can use NT
>style encrypted passwords in a second password file, and comes with
>tools to maintain the second password file. Or you can just use the
>UNIX password file, but I believe versions of NT < 4.0 (including
>betas) have problems talking to machines that don't use NT style
>encrypted passwords; browsing fails and passwords are asked for
>repeatedly when mounting shares.
>
> We have no NT machines (yet), but SAMBA is running as a domain
>controller for our Win95 machines with no problems.
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>Hi Jason,
>
>As far as I know, only Sun supports NIS+. I would love to be wrong on
>this, but I don't think I am.
>
>--sk
>
>Stuart Kendrick
>Network Services
>FHCRC
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>Not yet!
>Sun is developing a network client that will do what you want.
>Look at URL http://www.sun.com/solstice/guides/netclient.html
>for an introduction.
>
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>I can not say definitively, but I strongly suspect the answer is NO. NIS+ is
>very Sun proprietary, so unless they have explicitly done something, I doubt
>Microsoft has provided support on the NT side. I also would be very
surprised if
>any third party has a product in this area.
>
>NIS+ is pretty useful IFF on a Solaris only environment, particularly if you
>care about security as my current customer does. Once you get off the Sun
>platform, though, its pretty much unsupported.
>
>-Marc
>
>Marc S. Gibian
>Telos Consulting Services phone: (617) 377-6350
>PRISM/TFS email: gibian@stars1.hanscom.af.mil
>
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Jason D. Lindholm
Software Engineer
Conley Corporation
Phone: (617) 441-5600 x124
mailto://jason@conley.com
http://www.conley.com
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