NIS or Other Auth Protocol - Linux and Windows

[David Vernon]

On Sun, 2004-06-06 at 21:27, Ragone_Andrew wrote:
> This may be a little OT but here it goes:
> I am going to be setting up a small network of about 10 computers that
> I would like to have an Authentication for so that users can login
> [mainly from Windows computers] and set up Shares [such as
> //server/home/user mapped to the Z: drive. I have heard of NIS and
> Kerberos but I am not sure if I can set up file shares with them. I
> know that Windows Server does it, for example, with Directory
> Services, but I do not like Microsoft and am sure that the Linux world
> has a daemon similar or better than that. 

http://samba.org

howto docs at:
http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/howto/

have fun.