Re: [seul-edu] [OT? Tech stuff] NIS and Windows 2k/XP

[Cameron Miller <cdmiller@adams.edu>]

Contact Cedarlug, the Cedar Valley Linux Users Group for help, they are 
a great LUG and very helpful.

http://www.cedarlug.org

The current Admin for the U of Northern Iowa College of Natural Sciences 
has this all set up and is a member of the LUG.  This includes single 
sign on via LDAP for UNIX/Linux/Windows/Appletalk clients.

http://www.cns.uni.edu/cns-computing/

The hardest part used to be getting a the Unix password change to update 
the Samba password which had a seperate password file needed for 
encrypted logins to Samba.  I haven't looked at Samba for a while so 
maybe it's easy now.  I dunno about Apple Mac servers, but Mac clients 
work just fine using UNIX/Linux servers and netatalk.

- cameron

Kevin Godby wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I hope this isn't too off-topic for this list.  I am trying to configure a
> Linux box to act as a central user authentication server (like NIS or a
> PDC).  Does anyone have any pointers to resources which explain how to set
> up the Linux side of things and also how to get these handful of Windows
> workstations to get username/password info from the Linux box?  (It'd be
> cool if the Mac servers could do this, too.)
> 
> Feel free to e-mail me privately if you think this is too off-topic for the
> list.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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> Kevin Godby  <godbyk@aea15.k12.ia.us>
> Technology Coordinator
> Moulton-Udell Community School District
> 305 E. Eighth St.   Phone: (641) 642-8131
> Moulton, Iowa  52572  Fax: (641) 642-3461
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- cameron miller
- UNIX Systems Administrator
- cdmiller@adams.edu