From: "Wayne Oliver" <wayne.oliver@synovate.com>
To: <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] [OT] linux authentication server
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 10:30:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <69BC4C9863CECF41B5CC9F4CF409FD657B1286@jhb01.prolocal.co.za> (raw)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Iain Buchanan [mailto:iaindb@netspace.net.au]
> Sent: 10 May 2007 09:13
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: [gentoo-user] [OT] linux authentication server
>
> Hi all,
>
> this one's a bit OT...
>
> I have a linux server and multiple (<10) windows xp clients. So far,
> each windows client has it's own user and password info stored on it.
> This slowly becomes harder to manage as a user has to have an account
on
> each machine, and has to change passwords in multiple places.
>
> Therefore, I'm looking for an active directory kindof server for
linux.
> I have minimal experience with AD, if it even is available the way I
> think it is for linux, but I have no doubt I can pick up the
> administration. Your opinion on your favourite, and why, would be
very
> useful to me. Any tips / howto would also be great.
>
> thanks!
Hi Iain,
Take a look at SAMBA, if you have limited experience with AD type stuff
it may even be better to run your small network using an NT4 style
domain.
Regards,
Wayn0
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2007-05-10 8:30 Wayne Oliver [this message]
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2007-05-10 7:12 [gentoo-user] [OT] linux authentication server Iain Buchanan
2007-05-10 9:05 ` Daniel Iliev
2007-05-10 9:45 ` Dirk Heinrichs
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