Would this approach allow clients (all Win9X and NT) to change their passwords in a similar way to samba or would all password changes need to be made centrally (so to speak)?
Because the Unix password is one-way encrypted there is AFAIK no way of keeping NT passwords in sync with those amended on a Unix box - unless you have a password-amending script in between you and yppasswd that will amend the NT password as well. Do let me know if you find one. I am told there can be problems with, inter alia, error reporting. But if you have an NT box as your master password system then Samba provides (I understand) facilities to replicate that on your Unix YP server. But all passwords must be changed on the NT box. User management too. -- Christopher Dawkins, Felsted School, Dunmow, Essex CM6 3JG 01371-820527 or 07798 636725 cchd@felsted.essex.sch.uk