[ILUG] OpenLDAP on Linux and Windows Accounts

[Robert Sweetnam]

Hi All,

Having installed SuSE Linux enterprise 9 along with Novell's Nterprise 
services from the Novell evaluation kit, I have a bit of a query regarding 
LDAP.
Since I want to integrate this server into a Windows LAN for testing, I was 
wondering if it is possible using OpenLDAP to replicate the Windows 2000 
domain accounts into the LDAP directory? Since the LAN is primarily windows, 
I would like to give some users access to the Linux box and ideally they 
should be able to log on to the server using the same username and password. 
the whole idea being that if their account password changed on doze it would 
shortly be replicated to OpenLDAP.

Already on the LAN is a Netscape LDAP server on NT4  which does just this for 
synchronising login's to a legacy HP3000 server as well as SAP on HP UX. 
However as the SuSE machine is just for testing at the moment I'm reluctant 
to use that LDAP server. And besides I'm considerably new to LDAP!

Can it be done and is it relatively straight forward? 

Cheers
Robert