[K12OSN] winbind--Using NT Domain Accounts on Clients

[John Simovic]

I am using Windows Services for Unix 3.5 (I know I am using the dark side
but politically have no choice). It works very well to auth and provide home
files to linux users.

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Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2004 10:39 PM
Subject: Re: [K12OSN] winbind--Using NT Domain Accounts on Clients


> i use winbind to authenticate seamlessly to win2000 domain from ltsp with
> oh 1000 users or so....the pam_mkhomedir section in pam.d/system-auth
> creates a local home directory
>
> by rights you sjould be ablt to use pam_mount to mount a users win2000
> directory as well..i have never gotten it to work...so i use a stupid
> little script that prompts for name and pw and then smbmounts the win2000
> directory....i can ship you my scripts if it helps...just practice your
> linux rescue techniques and make backup copies of pam.d files..chuck
>
> there is also something called pam_smb which authenticates by attempting
an
> smbmount based on users input at login ..i didn't play much wwith it
>
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