[K12OSN] Using NT Domain Accounts on Clients

[Josiah Ritchie]

Mark Cockrell wrote:

>> I'm really supposed to be studying for my CCNA exam Mon... but as a 
>> quick answer you'll want to use security = domain, and the server 
>> entry to go with it, in the smb.conf file. This will point requests to 
>> your NT domain server.
>>
>> Are you talking about windows boxes mounting user directories from the 
>> K12LTSP server? If so, that's a logon script thing. I think you have 
>> to create a share called netshare, place a batch script in there and 
>> do some other things.
>>
>> That's mostly directions to start looking for now. Not real clear 
>> though cause I should be studying... :-)
>>
>> JSR/
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> No,  I want for my students to be able to log onto the thin clients 
> using their existing NT user accounts, and for their home directories to 
> be redirected back to the NT server.  Is that clear?

Where are the home directories coming from? I think I'm now 
understanding that they are coming from the NT Server. I'm going to 
guess that should be possible, but I'd highly recommend making yourself 
another SAMBA file server, sharing the users directories to the LTSP 
server via NFS and then you'd be done. This is the standard method of 
going about it. I'm going to guess with all those SMB drives mapped to 
the LTSP server things could get messy. You'd probably also want to make 
sure that a cron job killed them off after a period of inactivity or 
something if you make it happen.

Setting up a seperate SAMBA/NFS file server doesn't take much work if 
you have the hardware and would be worth it. Backups could be easily 
performed to the current Domain/File Server nightly.

If all else fails, you can teach the kids to use the smbmount command 
and mount the SMB share from the file server to a directory in their 
Linux directory. That's pretty easy really and could even be scripted.

One thing to remember if you mount their home directories as their home 
directories in Linux, when they open them in Windows they'll have stacks 
of the .file and .directories that don't show up in Linux holding their 
settings together.

JSR/