Re: Setting up a linux network
On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 12:36, Kent West wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 10:22, Kent West wrote:
> >
> >>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).
> >>
> >
> > I _think_ he's talking about a complete linux replacement for all
> > of the Winboxen, including clients.
> >
> > I believe that NIS+NFS would do it, where the students' /home
> > directories are kept on the server, and exported to the client
> > when the student logs in.
>
> I can't speak for Camilo, but for me, NIS+NFS would require a second
> database of account information, paralleling that which is already in
> the NT Domain, or am I (hopefully) mistaken? It's impractical for me to
> try to duplicate the student logon information.
You can see it this way.... Or just the opposite: running a NT Domain
you need to duplicate the NIS database.
Michel.
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> Thanks anyway!
>
> Kent
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