Anand Bisen rearranged electrons thusly:

> I have been assigned a task to integrate the task for unifying computing
> resource for my organisation.... Now the main task of this project is to give
> the users a roming profile i.e. they can log from any pc around the
> organisation and get their personal files.... and there should be a single
> login and passowrd....
 
samba (as a PDC).

> Now i have read some LDAP howto and Samba ... but since we have many kinds of
> clients which include Citrix Thin Clinets and IBM NC's and some normal IBM
> P-III's all are running either windows or Linux.... 
 
not a bad idea ...

> Is it possible to integrated LDAP and Samba or something like that ...
> because samba supports roaming profile and authentication for Windows and
> LDAP for Unixes.... so how can i unify both the things to one ... so that a

put the ldap files on a shared samba partition?  
set up a linux box as the pdc (samba - the new beta version especially - can
support that)?

> person with single login and password can see his/her files in either of the
> OS...
 
-- 
Suresh Ramasubramanian  <-->  mallet <at> efn <dot> org
EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin
"What separates normal people from kooks is how they react when people disagree
with them or tell them "NO"  <-- Ron Ritzman on news.admin.net-abuse.email


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