Good Morning friends, we have a Netapp file server with around 100TB which serves space for all of our *nix boxes. So let us call it as Homer for our discussion. This system does not have any OS with it. One can mount its space on any of the system.
We would like to create home folder of each user on this. So the folder named "mahantesh" should be accessible only to user "mahantesh". This is straight forward if user "mahantesh" is on Homer itself. But homer acts as file-server, no one could directly log-on to it. We would need to access this folder from any system on the network. So when I log-in to Windows client(which get authenticated by a domain controller in Active Directory), I should be able to access my dir "mahantesh". For this does Homer has to support CIFS or samba is enough?(I guess CIFS is another name given by MS for SMB). Another possiblity is when I log in to Unix box.... Now user "mahantesh" logged into Unix box, should be recognised as the same user "mahantesh" who logged in through Active Directory. Our challenge lies in making Linux box (through which we give access to Homer) think that, user accessing his folder is the same user from wherever he accesses his home folder. This means a single sigh on(it should not ask auth details again and again). The first though came to me was mapping users using NIS, but that does not seem to be a good solution. Any thoughts/ ideas will be very hepful. Thanks. Mahantesh. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
