Re: [school-discuss] Authentication advice needed please

[Sam Snow <snowsam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Ruwoldt wrote:
> Thanks for such a quick response Matt.
>
> We have found a guide for authenticating edubuntu against active 
> directory in windows 2000 server.
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=91510&highlight=winbind
>
> We are hoping that the process outlined in this guide will be 'easily' 
> adaptable to authenticating edubuntu against samba on our sme server.
>
> Does this look like we are on the right track? Any clues or hints?
>
> Peter


Looks good to me, though I have never added kerbos to the mix. I 
currently use winbind on a debian email server at a school. All the 
user's passwords are checked against a windows 2003 domain and it has 
worked great since about 2002.

Sam
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