Thank you for your response; How did you set up item #2? Did you edit the fstab on the client Linux boxes?
If you have an example you could send, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you, James -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Alexander [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 11:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Single login server for Linux clients 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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