-----Original Message----- From: James D. Parra [mailto:JamesP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 11:37 AM To: Redhat-List (E-mail) Subject: Single login server for windows and Linux Hello, What is the best method to have one central Linux server handling login authentication for Linux and windows machines? What I would like to achieve is; 1) Provide only network server logins for Linux boxes and have no local accounts on any Linux machine. 2) Have /home/$USER reside on the centralized Linux login server and not on local machines. 3) Ditto for windows machines (I know I can achieve this with Samba for windows clients, unless there is a better way) If anyone has this type of environment set up, I would greatly appreciate your help and advice. Many thanks in advance, James We use NIS for the Unix side and Samba PDC for the Window side. Home directories are automounted and Samba mounts these home directories as the H drive on the windows box. This setup still requires two password db (/etc/passwd and /etc/samba/smbpasswd). As of this writing I'm looking into the possiblities of LDAP to eliminate this. HTH ~smbinyon -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
