-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 This is not meant as an exhaustive description of your general topic, it is just one man's experiences in this realm.
I use samba/cifs for pretty much all file sharing these days. smb4k is handy for browsing for shares on any given network. On my own lan I simply have entries in my /etc/fstab for mounting the usual shares, with user names and passwords in a credentials file. Single sign on would likely come from kerberos, just as it does in the Windows world (Active Directory). Of course your server services would need to support kerberos (samba and ssh do). I used to have kerberos authenticating samba and ssh, before I reduced the number of machines in my lan to 3, which makes that a ridiculously overpowered solution. Ian Bruseker wrote: > Random discussion topic. How do you browse a network in Linux? By > that I mean something analogous to a Windows domain. I'm wondering > about the whole package: browsing to find the shared resource, > authenticating, and transferring. I got to thinking about this last > week when I got tired of always using "Connect to computer" on my > PowerBook to mount the AFP share on my Gentoo box. So I installed > Avahi (a Rendezvous "server", I guess you'd call it), and now my SSH > and AFP services are broadcast on my network so I can access them by > name and the Gentoo box just magically appears in the Networks folder > on the Mac. Nifty. Then last night I was messing around with Ubuntu > 7.04 in a VM, and found that it had magically picked up the SSH shares > on both the Gentoo and Mac machines (again using Avahi, I believe). > When I clicked on one, I could log in and it mounted the remote > filesystem using SFTP. Nifty again, but it got me to thinking. > Rendezvous is the Apple way, and Samba is the Microsoft way, but what > is the Linux way? Put another way, before anyone invented Rendezvous > and Samba, how did people browse a Linux only (or Unix only, if we > have to go back that far) network? Where does the single sign-on come > from, if that's possible, à la Windows domain, where I wouldn't be > asked for a username/password to mount the remote filesystem? And > what protocol is used? NFS? *cringe* I've never gotten along with > NFS. > > Like I said, random discussion topic, just creating conversation. > How's everyone's Tuesday? :-) > > Ian > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGgbUGwRXgH3rKGfMRAkTMAKCdByU8il3rnR6syWfK3vr0LTca6gCfSUTW e67mPkcqOz29F/zZwoaPEr8= =btCI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
