[ok-mail] [K12OSN] K12LSTP in a Windows Environment

[John Hansknecht]

On Friday 09 July 2004 11:01 am, Mark Cockrell wrote:
> Hello all,
>     I've got a well-established Windows NT domain running here, and I'm
> trying to add some Linux terminals to the mix.  I know very little about
> Linux in general and even less about Terminal Services specifically.
> There are a couple of things I want to do, but I don't know how, or if
> they're even possible.  Is there some way to synchronize the Linux
> server with my NT Primary Domain Controller so that my users can log on
> to the terminals with their existing NT user names and passwords?

We use Winbind combined with pam_mkhomedir to authenticate users against our 
windows domain and create the users local home directory. You can find 
information on winbind on the samba.org site and information on pam_mkhomedir 
here: 
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/Linux-PAM-html/pam-6.html#ss6.15

If you through in pam_mount (http://www.flyn.org/projects/pam_mount/) you can 
actually mount the users windows home drives as a subfolder of there linux 
home drive. 

If you decide to give it a whirl and get stuck feel free to drop me a line 
with your questions. 

Thanks,

John Hansknecht
Director of Technology
University of Detroit Jesuit High School & Academy
phone: 313-927-2321
email: john.hansknecht at udjesuit.org