Hi, > AFAIK, you can provide home folder access w/o directly logging on to > Netapp filer.
We want to use ACLs which netapp filer does not give. Different rights to different roles. [...] > This is certainly doable and AFAIK, this is the preferred way of using > the Netapp filer. The idea is to "join" the Netapp server to your AD > controller and then use a netlogin batch script to mount the user's home > directory from the Netapp server. Adding netapp to AD may require some interface, but mounting the users homes while logging in thr.script is possible. I will try this option of adding netapp to AD. Do you have any clues on this. (Sorry to ask this, I will go thr. docs of netapp server) [...] > Netapp _does_ support CIFS/SMB. Correct it does support. [...] > > 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. > Sure. I had a couple of boxes here doing just that. Did you use LDAP here. Can you please give some more details on achieving this. [...] > Why dont you want to allow users to mount their shares direclty from the > Netapp server instead of going thru the Linux gateway. Again for ACLs sake. > For the Single Sign On Solution (SSO) part: > Chuck out Active directory/Win2k and replace it with OpenLDAP and Samba. > If this is a win centric LAN then: > > - Set up AD for the domain. > > - Install MS Services for UNIX and enable UNIX extensions for all users. > SFU does provide NIS services too, but for the sake of security, use > only the LDAP protocol. You could also use AD4Unix for extending the > AD schema to support POSIX attributes. > > - Install pam_ldap and nss_ldap on all unix servers and configure them > to look up active directory for UNIX attributes. Although I cannot avoid AD, I will try AD4Unix. [...] > http://www.css-solutions.ca/ad4unix/index.html Thanks for your inputs Shanu. 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
