Hopefully I'm not stating the obvious, but 'winbind' is a chunk of Samba technology that allows a *nix client to authenticate to a Windows (or Samba!) server. If you set your terminal server up to authenticate against your SME Samba server, then you will have single-sign-on. Just google 'winbind' and you'll find plenty of how-tos. Alternatively, if you're willing to consider a different solution than Samba by itself, you can look at configuring Samba to work with OpenLDAP as its back-end. Then you configure your Windows clients to authenticate to the Samba domain, and you configure your Linux clients to authenticate to the LDAP directory. Single-sign-on attained! There are several how-tos out there and several commercial tools intended to take the work out of doing this. One option is the "smbldap-installer" project that I've worked on; see http://majen.net/smbldap/ if you're interested. --matt Peter Ruwoldt wrote: [Tue May 02 2006, 06:14:07PM EDT] > We are trying to work toward a more useful implementation of Linux > terminal services for us. We are having difficulty making the system so > that users do not have to have a special user account to login into a > terminal server. > > We use sme-server/ e-smith version 6.01 ( http://contribs.org/ > http://www.e-smith.com/ ) It uses samba 2.2.8a as a domain controller. > > We need a terminal client solution that will authenticate to our domain > controller using the samba server. > > This would ideally be edubuntu 6.06 (which is to be released in a couple > of weeks as we understand) > > Any clues , suggestions or solutions gratefully received. > > Peter > > -- > Free and Open education for all > > Peter Ruwoldt > Grant High School > Hosking Avenue > MOUNT GAMBIER SA 5290 > > http://waraku.blogspot.com/ > -- Open Source Software Engineering Consultant http://majen.net/
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