Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a gentoo workstation to Active Directory network

2008-08-11 Thread Yoav Luft
Thanks everyone. I was actually hoping for a read the google, newb response, as long as it had the right search terms, cause I didn't have a clue what to google for :). So again, thanks, I've downloaded a pile of howto's to my workstation and I work on it on my dead time. On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a gentoo workstation to Active Directory network

2008-08-10 Thread Stroller
On 9 Aug 2008, at 14:52, Yoav Luft wrote: In an ideal world users should use their domain username password to log on when they sit down at the Linux box. And they should be mounting the directories they need off the file server by (double-clicking on a drive icon on their KDE desktop if

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a gentoo workstation to Active Directory network

2008-08-10 Thread Jil Larner
Hello, I recently set up samba to allow authentification against Active Directory for file sharing on a CentOS 4.5. Even if their installer is supposed to do it correctly, it didn't work the way I wanted, so I had to understand how to set it up manually. The main problem I found with

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a gentoo workstation to Active Directory network

2008-08-09 Thread Stroller
On 9 Aug 2008, at 01:05, Yoav Luft wrote: ... that was actually interesting, but it didn't help me much... I do not manage the network, neither do I have any knowledge of it's working. I asked the help desk guys to help out, but all they managed is to get me someone that knew, after a 2

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a gentoo workstation to Active Directory network

2008-08-09 Thread Yoav Luft
In an ideal world users should use their domain username password to log on when they sit down at the Linux box. And they should be mounting the directories they need off the file server by (double-clicking on a drive icon on their KDE desktop if necessary and) using their same unique

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a gentoo workstation to Active Directory network

2008-08-08 Thread Stroller
On 7 Aug 2008, at 23:04, Andrey Falko wrote: ... As far as I know, don't take my word for it, in order to use Active Directory on a GNU/Linux host, you need to setup LDAP and have it talk to AD. Unfortunately I don't know how to do this, perhaps this will help:

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a gentoo workstation to Active Directory network

2008-08-08 Thread Yoav Luft
Hi stroller, that was actually interesting, but it didn't help me much... I do not manage the network, neither do I have any knowledge of it's working. I asked the help desk guys to help out, but all they managed is to get me someone that knew, after a 2 hours work, to mount the directories I

[gentoo-user] Adding a gentoo workstation to Active Directory network

2008-08-07 Thread Yoav Luft
Hello all, My workplace has decided to adventure to lands of embedded Linux. As I am the only one in my department with prior Linux experience, I was given the task of setting up a Linux workstation that will be used as the host machine for our embedded system. Since my only Linux experience with

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a gentoo workstation to Active Directory network

2008-08-07 Thread Andrey Falko
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Yoav Luft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, My workplace has decided to adventure to lands of embedded Linux. As I am the only one in my department with prior Linux experience, I was given the task of setting up a Linux workstation that will be used as the

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a gentoo workstation to Active Directory network

2008-08-07 Thread Norberto Bensa
Hello! Quoting Andrey Falko [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Yoav Luf As far as I know, don't take my word for it, in order to use Active Directory on a GNU/Linux host, you need to setup LDAP and have it talk to AD. You just need Kerberos and lots of documentation exists on