[brlug-general] Login server?

[-ray]

Agreed.  If you're just looking to get your feet wet on your home network, 
definitely Samba + OpenLDAP will do what you need.  However, try not to 
over complicate things up front.  Samba and OpenLDAP are both hairy beasts 
in their own right, haha.  Get Samba working just using local linux 
accounts (/etc/passwd and smbpasswd), then get your Windows users logging 
in using their linux credentials.  After that, then try to add the LDAP 
piece.

ray



On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Dustin Puryear wrote:

> What Kevin said.
>
>
> Kevin Kreamer wrote:
>> Joe Fruchey wrote:
>>> I meant that I wanted Windows and Linux users to both be able to log
>>> in. How do I accomplish that?
>>
>> OpenLDAP, generally.  A possible way to go about this is to install and
>> configure OpenLDAP as a network service.  Then, on the Linux machines
>> you want to use for this, you use the pam_ldap module to make PAM do
>> authentication using LDAP.  Samba also can look to LDAP for
>> authentication information.  And, of course as was said before, the
>> Windows boxes can look to Samba for their authentication needs.
>>
>> There's a bunch of documentation around the Internet, and plenty enough
>> installing and configuring to get your feet soaking wet :-)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Kevin
>>
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