On 7/19/06, Bliss, Aaron <ABliss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi everyone, I'm doing some research to see how viable linux could be in our environment on the desktop (it's makes up most of our backbone on the server side); like most environments, we have several linux servers authenticating to a ldap directory server (fds) and our windows boxes are participating in a 2003 domain; what I would like to do is to really investigate the viability of linux on our corporate desktops; while I know that linux machines can be joined to authenticate to Microsoft's AD, I need to know if anyone has any solutions/ideas for browsing network shares after logging into a desktop; what I mean is, browsing network shares while having the desktop manager/application use the already supplied network credentials for authentication (it's not practical to ask users to enter their domain usernames and passwords every time they want to browse a share); I know that xandros claims to have this functionality natively, however I don't really believe that xandros will bring the linux desktop to the masses; I would expect it to be a big player such as redhat or suse....At any rate, does anyone have any ideas that will allow for seamless file browsing? Thanks very much. Aaron
hello Aaron. I think if you could look at /etc/nsswitch.conf for ldap authentication this might work. but if it is just for authentication work, I suggest you also take a look at the kerberos and PAM authentication that might help you. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
