[NeroObsedian]

Originally Posted by smooth-c

How? Any help would greatly be appreciated

Tricky tricky!

I would reply with touche as "How?" certainly is a pre-sales question (imo) where as "How does that work?" is not. ( :P Sorry I'm bored. )

I first thought "how" much do I want to spend on a license?
Which then lead to "how" well would this integrate with what I'm already running?
"How" well would it integrate with other commonly used software?
"How" much key time will I have to invest to pull it off? (BIG!)
"How" reliable is it and "how" quick can it be picked up and learned by fellow staff members? I could go on but I talk too much as it is.

Long story short, google and I are BFFz for life and one thing lead to another. If I can figure out how to say five words in the place of ten and actually get some people to respond to a few of my posts then maybe I'd be inclined (and become capable) of sharing without annoying anyone away from the tutorial I would try to write on it.

On a serious note though...

An authentication bridge is possible through LDAP, read up on it. The more you actually understand about it the better you can apply it to your setup. That's important, its authentication.

As others have noted JFusion is an option, which I have also tried, and despite the Alpha stage I think its promising but its still a dice roll at this point. Come Beta I think a lot of people will see improvement and then there's always the paid option that some one mentioned as well, but as a noob tard I could be completely wrong. If you have enough for a vbb lease/owners license then whats a few extra bucks if a bridge is really that crucial to your intended structure?

Last thing I want to add is there is no magic integration tool(I doubt I missed it, but I could be wrong). Even with LDAP and what I've seen of JFusion you'll still have to put in the key time to make things like User Group restrictions function outside vbb like the normally would on your boards.