Re: Setting up a linux network

[Kent West <westk@nicanor.acu.edu>]

Camilo Olea wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I want to know, what can i do to have a linux network equivalent to 
> a windows one? This meaning, here at my college, the computer 
> lab network is made of a number of win2k PCs, anyone can sit 
> down at any terminal, login with his user/pass, and the network 
> loads automatically his profile, home directory,etc.
> The users save their files to their mapped network drive, that 
> resides phisically at the server.

This is something I've wanted to do for two years here at my university, 
but haven't been able to figure out.

I *believe* that samba + PAM can now authenticate off an NT domain, but 
I'm not sure of it, and I certainly have never figured out how.

I also believe it can authenticate off an LDAP server, which I've also 
tried a bit to accomplish, unsuccessfully.

All this to say that I *think* it can be done, but I've never done it 
(though I'd love to).

Kent