On 6/26/07, Gustin Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > Ya, and for a small network (I'm talking 4 computers at home, including the IPCop box) that's cool. I was just pondering how one would do it in a bigger network, where you don't know every computer's name and IP by heart. ;-)
> 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. > This gets me to thinking, does LDAP fit into this somehow? I know it's something AD does. I'm wondering, how does one centrally manage the user accounts? 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
