Re: [gentoo-user] Adding Linux clients to samba primary domain controller
On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 02:03:52PM +0200, Ryan Viljoen wrote: I am currently helping out my old high school. They have just got some new pc's and they are wanting to run a dual boot setup on them with windows 2k and gentoo. The profile and home directories are all on a server and are mounted once the user has logged on and authenticated... nothing out of the ordinary there. Now how does one do the same thing with a linux client ie: the user log in is authenticated on the server and once that is done their home directory is mounted on the client for them? how many clients? AFAIK, on the linux computers in my department in a university just has a file server, which gets mounted by every linux box as NFS, and /home/user is just a link to /mountpoint/user I've never administered a large network before, so I don't know how relevant this information is, but the above solution seems to work for our department and supports about 500 people, 150 machines or so. W -- News headline: The man who fell into an upholstery machine was fully recovered. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 43 days, 17:35 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Adding Linux clients to samba primary domain controller
there should be 100 or so computers. How do the linux clients authenticate when the user logs on?On 9/24/05, Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 02:03:52PM +0200, Ryan Viljoen wrote: I am currently helping out my old high school. They have just got some new pc's and they are wanting to run a dual boot setup on them with windows 2k and gentoo. The profile and home directories are all on a server and are mounted once the user has logged on and authenticated... nothing out of the ordinary there. Now how does one do the same thing with a linux client ie: the user log in is authenticated on the server and once that is done their home directory is mounted on the client for them? how many clients? AFAIK, on the linux computers in my department in auniversity just has a file server, which gets mounted by every linuxbox as NFS, and /home/user is just a link to /mountpoint/user I've never administered a large network before, so I don't know howrelevant this information is, but the above solution seems to work forour department and supports about 500 people, 150 machines or so. W--News headline:The man who fell into an upholstery machine was fully recovered.Sortir en Pantoufles: up 43 days, 17:35--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- When you say I wrote a program that crashed Windows, people just stare at you blankly and say Hey, I got those with the system, for free. - Linus Torvalds, 1995
Re: [gentoo-user] Adding Linux clients to samba primary domain controller
On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 05:02:07PM +0200, Ryan Viljoen wrote: there should be 100 or so computers. How do the linux clients authenticate when the user logs on? It doesn't. It mounts the NFS volume at boot up. The user homedirs points to the directories on the NFS volume. The user logs in normally... just that his/her home directory resides on a networked volume. W -- Keep American clean. Eat a pigeon. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 43 days, 19:11 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
