Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a gentoo workstation to Active Directory network

2008-08-11 Thread Yoav Luft
Thanks everyone. I was actually hoping for a "read the google, newb" response, as long as it had the right search terms, cause I didn't have a clue what to google for :). So again, thanks, I've downloaded a pile of howto's to my workstation and I work on it on my dead time. On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a gentoo workstation to Active Directory network

2008-08-10 Thread Jil Larner
Hello, I recently set up samba to allow authentification against Active Directory for file sharing on a CentOS 4.5. Even if their installer is supposed to do it correctly, it didn't work the way I wanted, so I had to understand how to set it up manually. The main problem I found with documen

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a gentoo workstation to Active Directory network

2008-08-10 Thread Stroller
On 9 Aug 2008, at 14:52, Yoav Luft wrote: In an ideal world users should use their domain username & password to log on when they sit down at the Linux box. And they should be mounting the directories they need off the file server by (double-clicking on a drive icon on their KDE desktop if

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a gentoo workstation to Active Directory network

2008-08-09 Thread Yoav Luft
> > In an ideal world users should use their domain username & password to log > on when they sit down at the Linux box. And they should be mounting the > directories they need off the file server by (double-clicking on a drive > icon on their KDE desktop if necessary and) using their same unique >

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a gentoo workstation to Active Directory network

2008-08-09 Thread Stroller
On 9 Aug 2008, at 01:05, Yoav Luft wrote: ... that was actually interesting, but it didn't help me much... I do not manage the network, neither do I have any knowledge of it's working. I asked the help desk guys to help out, but all they managed is to get me someone that knew, after a 2 ho

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a gentoo workstation to Active Directory network

2008-08-08 Thread Yoav Luft
Hi stroller, that was actually interesting, but it didn't help me much... I do not manage the network, neither do I have any knowledge of it's working. I asked the help desk guys to help out, but all they managed is to get me someone that knew, after a 2 hours work, to mount the directories I neede

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a gentoo workstation to Active Directory network

2008-08-08 Thread Stroller
On 7 Aug 2008, at 23:04, Andrey Falko wrote: ... As far as I know, don't take my word for it, in order to use Active Directory on a GNU/Linux host, you need to setup LDAP and have it talk to AD. Unfortunately I don't know how to do this, perhaps this will help: http://www.linux.com/articles/4098

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a gentoo workstation to Active Directory network

2008-08-07 Thread Norberto Bensa
Hello! Quoting Andrey Falko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Yoav Luf As far as I know, don't take my word for it, in order to use Active Directory on a GNU/Linux host, you need to setup LDAP and have it talk to AD. You just need Kerberos and lots of documentation exists o

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a gentoo workstation to Active Directory network

2008-08-07 Thread Andrey Falko
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Yoav Luft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > My workplace has decided to adventure to lands of embedded Linux. As I am > the only one in my department with prior Linux experience, I was given the > task of setting up a Linux workstation that will be used as th

[gentoo-user] Adding a gentoo workstation to Active Directory network

2008-08-07 Thread Yoav Luft
Hello all, My workplace has decided to adventure to lands of embedded Linux. As I am the only one in my department with prior Linux experience, I was given the task of setting up a Linux workstation that will be used as the host machine for our embedded system. Since my only Linux experience with a