Samba/Winbind; Windbind can be configured to authenticate directly to the NT Domain. No need for local user accounts, and keeping passwords in sync. Very handy. I even have it setup to authenticate users for our domain for Telnet/SSH/Samba Share/FTP, etc. Previous to winbind, you had to have a local system account for anything but the Samba Shares/Printers. James -----Original Message----- From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org] Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 1:38 PM To: TCLUG Mailing List Subject: [TCLUG] authentication via NT domain, or whatever On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Richard Hoffbeck wrote: > But look at it from the IT managers point of view. You've got 100+ > people set up for user authentication against VMS with no easy way to > utilize that service from Linux/Solaris/etc. So you can require users to > have accounts on both the new and old system, or you spring for > proprietary software to keep passwords in sync or export the > authentication services - I'm pretty sure there's a 3rd party NFS/NIS > package available and of course there is always PathWorks (if clear text > passwords don't bother you) but they both co$t. We have been using an NT box to do authentication for the VMS machines. I don't know the details there, but I think the VMS system passwords are the same as the NT Domain passwords and the VMS box communicates with the NT box when someone tries to log into the VMS server. We want Linux to be able to use this same system. How can that be accomplished? Our IT guys thought there might be an LDAP-based solution, but they haven't been able to come up with it yet. It would be a big time saver if we could get something to do the authentication for us. Thanks in advance for any tips. Mike _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list