[Samba] Single Sign On, authentication, and Windows XP Home
Chris Smith
smb23 at realcomputerguy.com
Thu Dec 27 15:27:46 GMT 2007
On Thursday 27 December 2007, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
> Not sure why you didn't use Google (apparently, as this didn't take
> me very long), but I did:
>
> http://www.ntcompatible.com/story8718.html
My experience is that that hack is relatively useless for this purpose.
The app may have improved but what I found: the user still needs a
local account and all it does is persistently apply a set of
credentials that will allow access to domain resources. Which can
easily be done with a persistent share, albeit the domain credentials
will need to be entered on startup unless the local credentials are
identical.
XP Home simply sucks, even DOS with the Workgroup Add-On can interface
with an MS Domain better. The Vista Home editions are probably just as
sucky in this regard although I haven't seen them yet.
Businesses that license the home editions are making an expensive
mistake.
--
Chris
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