MS Services for unix allows you to use a windows box as a NIS master.

khurram.khan@qict.net (Khurram Khan) wrote in message news:<a23090a4.0408262128.7833a63f@posting.google. com>...
> We are using 9x Windows 2000 server and 2x AIX servers on our network,
> we intend to configure centralized user management, which means we
> should have an option in windows AD to define whether this user is
> allowed to login in AIX or not and what will be his home folder and
> group in AIX and we should not require to create his user account in
> our AIX machine.
>
> I will appreciate if any of you can advice a reliable solution /
> configuration.
>
>
> Regards.