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

Hi, Thanks for all the replies. I setup a NIS server and it works. I read that ldap seems to be the best option. Does anyone have a howto to authenticate network users against the ldap server? I cannot find nice info on it. thanks regards On Sat, 2 Apr 2005 23:46:14 -0500 John Scott wrote:

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

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