Why not just use LDAP for authentication, too, at that point? On Mar 25, 2008, at 6:27 PM, Jon Schewe wrote: > I've done something a little larger, up to 50 users and found that a > hybrid kerberos & LDAP approach worked reasonably well. Kerberos is > used for authentication and LDAP is used for the home directory and > group info. > > Some pointers are here: http://del.icio.us/jpschewe/lug.auth Some of > these links are related integrating with windows since active > directory > uses kerberos. > > Mark Mitchell wrote: >> My current network looks like this; >> 1. A 'file server' running Debian Stable exporting a media share and >> home directories via nfs. Samba was working on here the last time I >> had a windows machine on the network., >> 2, My old desktop running Debian testing, >> 3, My new desktop running Kubuntu. (Thanks, Samir) >> 4, I will soon be adding a windows XP machine, that will need to have >> access to at least the samba share on the 'file server'. >> >> I have 4 users. (Parents and two kids), right now, all 4 users have >> an >> account on the old desktop. I just remembered, I might have a couple >> logins on the file server for friends to log in from outside the >> network. Rarely used, SSH only. >> >> Keeping /etc/hosts and uid/gid information has become unwieldy. I >> know >> my nfs share is a permissions mess right now, but I need to get the >> uid/gid information synced across all the machines before I really >> have a hope of getting that cleaned up. >> >> What system should I learn about that best fits my network size and >> the scope of the problem? LDAP? NIS? rsyncing the appropriate files >> from a common place? >> >> Pointers appreciated. >> >> Mark >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > > -- > Jon Schewe | http://mtu.net/~jpschewe > If you see an attachment named signature.asc, this is my digital > signature. > See http://www.gnupg.org for more information. > > For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels > nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any > powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all > creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that > is in Christ Jesus our Lord. - Romans 8:38-39 > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list ----- Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks