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On Thu, 10 May 2007 16:42:48 +0930 |
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au> wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> this one's a bit OT... |
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> I have a linux server and multiple (<10) windows xp clients. So far, |
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> each windows client has it's own user and password info stored on it. |
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> This slowly becomes harder to manage as a user has to have an account |
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> on each machine, and has to change passwords in multiple places. |
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> Therefore, I'm looking for an active directory kindof server for |
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> linux. I have minimal experience with AD, if it even is available the |
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> way I think it is for linux, but I have no doubt I can pick up the |
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> administration. Your opinion on your favourite, and why, would be |
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> very useful to me. Any tips / howto would also be great. |
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> thanks! |
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A possible free solution is using samba as PDC and an LDAP |
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authentication. Check theese out: |
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http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin23/index.html |
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http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/ |
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Gentoo specific: |
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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ldap-howto.xml |
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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/quick-samba-howto.xml |
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Best regards, |
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Daniel |
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