Sharing Authentication between Windows and Linux

[jjohnson at sunrise-linux.com (miah)]

Set up samba to act as a PDC.  Samba can pull the auth information out of ldap.

-miah

On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 06:12:11PM -0500, Joshua Pollak wrote:
> 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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