Heya. I myself have my network setup using the same princibles you noted. I
do not however have any windows boxes residing on my network. For
authentication each machine has it's own local accounts (I only have 6
machines and 3 users). I use NFS to mount home dirs and other various shared
directories to each box and it works excellently. To answer your questions
directly -
1) NIS++ ? NIS would allow you to have all accounts residing on the main box.
LDAP?? If I remeber correctly, LDAP can be used to authenticate users as
well. LDAP seems to be the better route to go from what I read breifly.
2) NFS handles this like a charm.
3) I'm not sure of any other way to do this other then smb (samba). Samba
these days is pretty solid and in reading there was a recent release of samba
with some pretty nice new features.
On October 1, 2003 12:18 pm, James D. Parra wrote:
> Hello,
>
> What is the best method to have one central Linux server handling login
> authentication for Linux and windows machines?
>
> What I would like to achieve is;
>
> 1) Provide only network server logins for Linux boxes and have no local
> accounts on any Linux machine.
>
> 2) Have /home/$USER reside on the centralized Linux login server and not on
> local machines.
>
> 3) Ditto for windows machines (I know I can achieve this with Samba for
> windows clients, unless there is a better way)
>
> If anyone has this type of environment set up, I would greatly appreciate
> your help and advice.
>
> Many thanks in advance,
>
>
> James
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