Re: [seul-edu] windows mac network via linux

[Cameron Miller <cdmiller@adams.edu>]

If, however, you want to have a common authentication database, Linux 
and PAM with the aforementioned samba and netatalk are hard to beat. 
Can the windows filesharing on appleshareip 6.1 act as a windows Domain 
Controller?

The Riverdale site still has a good intro to some of this stuff on the 
linux side:

http://www.riverdale.k12.or.us/linux/netadmin/

- cameron

jeremy hunsinger wrote:
> well, not to bust the linux bubble, but if you have a mac server and 
> appleshareip 6.1or better for the apple server then all you have to do 
> is turn on windows filesharing in appleshare and you are done nt can 
> connect just fine.  if you don't have appleshareip then you could also 
> the linux route.  you could also use osx server for this....  but it is 
> a bit pricey even for education.  other than that, macs talk to windows 
> clients just fine using dave, and they should have mactcp or other 
> networking tcp solutions already installed
> paul wrote:
> 
>> Hi
>>  
>> Where I work we have a room of Apple Mac (performa I think) computers. 
>> Afaik We have a mac server,  the rest of the site is on WinNT (I 
>> think) along with NT work stations,  I think the plan is to get the 
>> macs to talk to the rest of the network. so they can surf the net or 
>> allow the users to save their work to the main server.   
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