-----Original Message----- From: Phil Driscoll [SMTP:phil@dialsolutions.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 11:03 AM To: suse-linux-uk-schools@suse.com Subject: [suse-linux-uk-schools] authentication
You'll have noticed that I don't like to let a day pass without giving you people something to work out :) Here's today's issue. [Simon Wood] Beats working... ;-)
I've already set up one of my own machines as a PDC using SAMBA and my NT machine is very happy to mount the shares etc, so I am happy on that score. However, I haven't got the first idea how to set up a linux client machine to login via a server. I certainly don't want to have to setup all the user accounts on all the client machines, however the machines will need to retain local logon functionality for when they are used away from the school network, and also in the event of a failure in the network or server. [Simon Wood] I was mucking around at home and approached this from the opposite direction.... I set up 'yellow pages' so that other Linux boxes could use a central user/password server and then configured Samba to refer to that.
Depending on you level of commitment to using M$ as the system authenticator, you might be able to do it this way round. Haven't tried it with M$ in charge....