Re: [K12OSN] Linux Client Authentication with Samba PDC?

[Vern Ceder <vceder canterburyschool org>]

Kevin,

You don't need LDAP - you can authenticate off of SAMBA. I've got 
description of how we do it with Ubuntu (some dual boot with WinXP, some 
just Linux) at http://tech.canterburyschool.org/tech/UbuntuWorkstations 
. The one difference is that our PDC is actually a WinNT box, but it 
should work on a SAMBA PDC.

Cheers,
Vern


Onatawahtaw wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> We currently have a number of Windows (98 and XP) that
> log into a Linux Server using Samba as a PDC. This
> server also contains the students' home directories. 
>
> I have recently made another partition on some of the
> windows clients and have installed Ubuntu. I can log
> into the Ubuntu machines locally, but have no idea how
> to authenticate with the server instead. Once logged
> in I want to be able to provide access to the same
> home directories. I do not want to use the thin client
> method because right now our server is only 400MHz
> (yeah I know). 
>
> > From doing some research I understand that I probably
> have to use LDAP for authentication, but don't have a
> clue where to start. Does it work with along with
> Samba or separately from Samba? How does one go about
> setting it up? Or if there is a better way, please
> advise.
>
> Thanks for your help, :)
>
> -Kevin
>
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