Linux as an NT CLIENT

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Mayers, P J wrote:

> Do you mean at login: prompt time? In which case, if your system supports
> pam, you can use pam_ntdom (hence luke's rather sparse reply).
> 
> If not, you might want to investigate smb-agent, which does the same thing
> as ssh-agent - i.e. caches passwords. I don't know if pam_ntdom is
> integrated with smb-agent (if it were, it would give you single signon) but

no it's not.

actually, what smb-agent does is to cache _connections_ (smb connections)
on a per-user basis.

if the smb agent already has an SMB connection outstanding, it is reused.
the agent deals with the multiplexing automatically.

> But you need to be clear exactly what you mean, and how you're making Linux
> an NT client.

yes.

> Again, I don't know the state of integration between smb-agent, pam_ntdom
> and smbsh. Luke?

all untested.