[brlug-general] Login server?

[Joe Fruchey]

Oh, no, no, no... I never said I *needed* it... I just want to get my
feet wet and I figured that dabbling in it at home was the
best/easiest way.

On 7/10/07, Edmund Cramp <eac at motion-labs.com> wrote:
> SAMBA will handle all the Windows access requests and is effectively a full Windows Domain controller so you can permit or deny access to the shares from any Windows based system, it can control print services, and Windows login accounts too - most Windows users will never know that they're not running on a Windows box.  The web site is here - http://www.samba.org - however, I do wonder if you really *need* all of this for a home based network... but if you do, it works well, giving you full control over who has access to what.
>
> Edmund Cramp
> --
>  If at first you DO succeed, try not to look astonished!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: general-bounces at brlug.net [mailto:general-bounces at brlug.net] On Behalf Of Joe Fruchey
> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 8:33 PM
> To: general at brlug.net
> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Login server?
>
> I meant that I wanted Windows and Linux users to both be able to log in. How do I accomplish that?
>
> On 7/9/07, Dustin Puryear <dustin at puryear-it.com> wrote:
> > The only thing I saw missing from the other replies was in re: to "and
> > Linux users." What did you mean by that?
> >
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> >
> >
> > Joe Fruchey wrote:
> > > Okay, guys, bear with me because I've never messed with anything
> > > like this before.
> > >
> > > I'd like to set up a server that will process user logins and map
> > > network drives to user folders on the server. I know Windows can do
> > > it, but surely we can do something like this with Linux, right?
> > >
> > > I'd want it to process logins from Windows and Linux users. (I'm
> > > saying 'users' like it's all big and bad, when in reality, I'm
> > > talking about three or four users--this is for home.)
> > >
> > > Like I said, I have no experience and no nothing about how something
> > > like this would work.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > Joe
> > >
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