-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hell all. I plan to get my disorganized lan up to better standards. This is my planned setup: <isp via adsl> | (DMZ)http/ftp/mail [firewall]------+--[http/mysql/ftp/mail] | +--[login server ] | +-----+ | | [ws1] [ws2] Hardware: Firewall : Alphastation (Linux or ???BSD) DMZ: http/mysql/ftp/mail : AlphaStation (Linux) login server : AlphaStation (Linux) WS1 : Linux WS2 : Linux WS3 : Windows 2000 Server WS4 : Windows 2000/XP (and a few experimental boxes such as QNX, DUX and assorted Win boxes...) My primary question is: What do i use as LOGIN SERVER???? I need it to take care of all user authentications in the system I want a centralized "PDC" to ease the administration of users and accounts. It has to be "platform independent", in that i need both Linux and Windows macines to authenticate through it. Also, i want my external users (mail/web/ftp) to be authenticated by the same system. I do NOT want to have to administrate users in different utilities, i want ONE centralized, common "point of entry". What do i use? NIS? NIS+? LDAP? RADIUS? KERBEROS? If any of you have other comments or sugestions regarding this setup, please feel free to flame/encourage/suggest anything you want. - -- /Rikard - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rikard Johnels email : rjhn@linux.nu Web : http://www.rikjoh.com Mob : +46 70 464 99 39 - ------------------------ Public PGP fingerprint ---------------------------- < 15 28 DF 78 67 98 B2 16 1F D3 FD C5 59 D4 B6 78 46 1C EE 56 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+6wb3WdS2eEYc7lYRAmE7AKCiXEssvpdb0bjjK11URWWIJcLsegCgheP/ zNCqrJvY63N7G+rZ0jyhlfA= =tx4H -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----