Re: Authentication in a Mixed Debian/Samba/Win2K Environment

2002-11-20 Thread Frank Brodbeck
The key you're searching for is a combined Samba/NFS/NIS odr openLDAP environment. openLDAP keeps your user database and lets you manage the entire network (similiar to ActiveX or Zen) and your shares are handled by NFS and Samba to give the Windows Clients the ability to connect to the NFS shares.

Re: Authentication in a Mixed Debian/Samba/Win2K Environment

2002-11-20 Thread Andy
> I have been asked to convert the engineers at a company from Win2K desktops > to Debian. Very nice. This should be fun for you. > What do people recommend for a directory service in this environment? > Everyone should be able to log onto every system, Debian or Win2K - there > is no need to r

Authentication in a Mixed Debian/Samba/Win2K Environment

2002-11-20 Thread Doug MacFarlane
I have been asked to convert the engineers at a company from Win2K desktops to Debian. The Front Office staff will stay on Win2K. They currently do simple peer-to-peer networking, with all the attendant ID and password hassles that implies. They have a "server" which is currently just a peer wo