Sharing Authentication between Windows and Linux

[pardsbane at offthehill.org (Joshua Pollak)]

I've done this with Linux, how do you get Windows to authenticate from 
LDAP?

On Feb 26, 2004, at 8:00 AM, miah wrote:

> Why not auth off ldap?  should work with winders and linux.
>
> -miah
>
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 03:50:31PM -0500, Joshua Pollak wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> My company recently purchased a SnapServer NAS device. We are trying 
>> to
>> migrate all of file server needs to this machine, both for Linux and
>> Windows machines. The trick is that to enable NFS for our Unix boxes,
>> we need to enable NIS, but to ensure security, we want to make sure
>> that the NIS and Windows authentication are syncronized.
>>
>> We are mostly a Windows shop, and while our sysadmin is surprisingly
>> open to Linux solutions, Windows solutions probably are preferred.
>>
>> Is there anyway to have NIS and SMB authentication hosted by the same
>> machine? How would this be setup on Linux? How would we do this with a
>> Windows server? Does MS Unix Services provide this?
>>
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