Re: Future of Linux Question
esOn Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 04:04:50PM -0600, David.Grudek@anixter.com wrote:
> Why doesn't someone develop a similar protocol to Microsoft's network
> neighborhood and smb for Linux. So when you join a NIS like system that
> it will automatically authenticate you on your Linux network with your
> currently logged in user name and password. This way people that are
> accustomed to using Microsoft networking could just migrate over with a
> similar path. For users that are going to be desktop users they are going
> to rely on a gui front end with something like network neighborhood.
> Please let me know what you guy's think about this.
This is already pretty much possible when using LDAP. It's not quite
as integrated as Samba, but it is a lot more robust and extensible.
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