Re: [seul-edu] Integrating with Novell

[Harry McGregor <micros@azstarnet.com>]

It can be done... been a while since I have looked into it.

Their is a PAM plugin for NDS, and caldera has some utilities for
mounting NCP exports.   Also some stuff exists in the kernel.

I will see if we can check this out a bit more (at one location we have
two novell servers, though we are not intergrating the linux network
with the novell network (trying to phase out the novell stuff)).

			Harry

On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Jacques Fortier wrote:

> Hi,
> 	We're replacing our Computer Science lab at my school, and I've
> managed to convince the powers that be to install Linux on the new
> systems.  However, certain restrictions mean that we have to keep Windows
> as the primary OS, and we have to integrate with the rest of the school,
> which runs a combination of Windows and Novell software.  In particular,
> logins to the network are done through some sort of Novell software.
> 	What we're planning on doing is installing all with machines with
> a dual-boot Windows/Linux configuration.  Wha t we need however, is a way
> of integrating our logins to Novell.  Is it somehow possible to make it so
> that the user/password list is synchronized with Novell's?  Also, is it
> possible to have the user's home directory on the Novell server mounted
> as his home directory under Linux?
> 	If this isn't possible, are there alternatives?  One system I was
> thinking of would be one where everyone would use the same Linux login,
> but wouldn't be able to do anything until they were logged into the Novell
> server and the default home directory was somehow replaced with the user's
> Novell home directory.
> 	Thanks,
> 		Jacques Fortier
>