On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 23:26 +0200, it clown wrote:

Hi All,

how do you setup a linux box that stores all the users, groups and home folders for clients on the network? How do you get your clients to authenticate with the linux server where the users username/passwd is stored?

how would you set it up in a pure linux environment?

And how would you set it up in a mixed environment for linux and windows?

Pure linux have a look at YP/NIS packages or LDAP. For a mixed setup look into using LDAP/samba. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 * Only reply to the list please* "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge

On 01.04.05,23:26, it clown wrote:

Hi All,

how do you setup a linux box that stores all the users, groups and home folders for clients on the network? How do you get your clients to authenticate with the linux server where the users username/passwd is stored?

how would you set it up in a pure linux environment?

And how would you set it up in a mixed environment for linux and windows?

Thanks Regards

Some help here: http://www.smallbusinesscomputing.com/webmaster/article.php/3362001 - Jostein -- Jostein Berntsen

On Apr 1, 2005 4:26 PM, it clown wrote:

Hi All,

how do you setup a linux box that stores all the users, groups and home folders for clients on the network? How do you get your clients to authenticate with the linux server where the users username/passwd is stored?

how would you set it up in a pure linux environment?

And how would you set it up in a mixed environment for linux and windows?

Thanks Regards

Try using ldap for authentication and nfs mounts for the home directories for pure linux and store all the info in the ldap directory. For mixed, setup samba as a PDC, create and share the dirs via samba for Windows clients. Then config your linux clients to do Windows Authentication and have the dirs mounted on login. Or, have the linux clients use ldap/nfs. I tried this a couple of years ago using samba 2.2.7a and it took a few trial and errors to get it to work. My boss decided to abandon it though. Also, take a look at the samba-tng site for some docs/ideas to use Linux for the backend. John

On Friday 01 April 2005 12:26 pm, it clown wrote:

Hi All,

how do you setup a linux box that stores all the users, groups and home folders for clients on the network? How do you get your clients to authenticate with the linux server where the users username/passwd is stored?

how would you set it up in a pure linux environment?

And how would you set it up in a mixed environment for linux and windows?

Thanks Regards

Read up on Samba www.samba.org It does windows, can be a domain controller (if you REALLY need that mess). For pure Linux you could use NFS, but samba also works for that too and there are strong argument in favor of using a single solution for both. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen