Just for a follow up, I would like to thank everyone
for your help in finding a solution.  I found out the
issue and unfortunately it was related to my
stupidity.  I overlooked two entries in my
/etc/nsswitch.conf file and had forgotten to replace
the nis and nisplus with ldap.  Once I did that it
worked fine.  Thanks again for your help.

Bill





--- Steve Cayford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> 
> William Cody wrote:
> > To address a couple of issues:
> >  
> > With LTSP or diskless workstations there is no
> hard drive in the
> > systems. 
> 
> Not to quibble, but some LTSP clients do have hard
> disks which hold an
> etherboot image to get the booting process started.
> I thought you were
> referring to something like that.
> 
> > The boot off of an application server via PXE boot
> or network
> > boot.  On the application server there is an
> lts.conf file that points
> > the diskless workstation to the NIS server to
> autheticate the user. 
> 
> The NIS stuff in lts.conf should only be necessary
> for running local apps, it
> shouldn't affect the initial login. The application
> server itself is what
> handles the initial login.
> 
> > I am moving off of NIS and going to LDAP for
> authetication.  I have
> > already setup authetication in the
> system-config-authentication.  I have
> > everything running almost perfectly because LDAP
> autheticates the users
> > on the DISKED workstation (computer that has a
> hard drive and is running
> > FC6). 
> 
> Have you setup the application server with LDAP
> authentication? Can you login
> to the application server's console as an LDAP
> authenticated user?
> 
> I have my application server setup to authenticate
> to an LDAP server and did
> not need to make any modifications to the lts.conf
> file.
> 
> > The DISKLESS workstation booting off of the
> application server
> > via PXE is the one I cannot login to with my
> users.  The reason I cant
> > login is because I am not sure what to put in the
> lts.conf file to point
> > the workstation in the right direction to get the
> credentials for that
> > users (ie: username and password).  Any ideas
> would be appreciated.
> > 
> > */Steve Cayford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/* wrote:
> > 
> >     As far as I know the diskless clients
> shouldn't need to know
> >     anything about
> >     the authentication scheme. That's all handled
> by your pam setup on
> >     the server.
> > 
> >     When you say "disked" workstation, do you mean
> a workstation booting
> >     a full
> >     Linux distro off the hard drive or some sort
> of etherboot situation?
> > 
> >     -Steve
> > 
> >     William Cody wrote:
> >     > I am having some issues that I am hoping can
> be
> >     > resolved here. I have setup a LDAP test
> environment
> >     > and it is going very good. This is what I
> have in my
> >     > test environemtn:
> >     >
> >     > LDAP master
> >     > LDAP slave
> >     > 2 types of DISKLESS workstations (no hard
> drive....pxe
> >     > boot)
> >     > 1 DISKED workstation (has a hard drive)
> >     >
> >     > I have my LDAP master and slave both up and
> running
> >     > and replication working between the master
> and the
> >     > slave. I am wanting to use LDAP to
> authenticate user
> >     > login for the time being. In my test
> environment I
> >     > have two types of machine I am testing this
> on - a
> >     > DISKED workstation (has a harddrive) which I
> am able
> >     > to login to and have my username
> authenticated via
> >     > LDAP, so it is working fine. The one I am
> having an
> >     > issue with is my DISKLESS workstation. I
> don't know
> >     > what I need to add to my lts.conf file to
> tell it to
> >     > use ldap for user authentication. Any
> suggestions
> >     > would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
> >     >
> >     >
> >  
> Steven Cayford
> McNamara Academic Center
> University of Minnesota
> http://gopheracademics.com
> 
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