public inbox for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
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
--
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list



             reply	other threads:[~2007-05-10  8:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-10  8:30 Wayne Oliver [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=69BC4C9863CECF41B5CC9F4CF409FD657B1286@jhb01.prolocal.co.za \
    --to=wayne.oliver@synovate.com \
    --cc=gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox