On Thu, 10 May 2007 16:42:48 +0930 Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all, > > this one's a bit OT... > > I have a linux server and multiple (<10) windows xp clients. So far, > each windows client has it's own user and password info stored on it. > This slowly becomes harder to manage as a user has to have an account > on each machine, and has to change passwords in multiple places. > > Therefore, I'm looking for an active directory kindof server for > linux. I have minimal experience with AD, if it even is available the > way I think it is for linux, but I have no doubt I can pick up the > administration. Your opinion on your favourite, and why, would be > very useful to me. Any tips / howto would also be great. > > thanks! A possible free solution is using samba as PDC and an LDAP authentication. Check theese out: http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin23/index.html http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/ Gentoo specific: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ldap-howto.xml http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/quick-samba-howto.xml -- Best regards, Daniel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
