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
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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