Linux as an NT Client

[Thien Vu]

It depends on what you will be using on the Linux platform. In our office,
Samba will be the main mechanism for authentication until we move to
something like LDAP. We achieve this for our WinNT workstations and Linux
workstations. For our Linux boxes, we will be doing authentication through
pam_smb (which can be obtained in a similar manner to Samba through cvs) and
probably will be mounting home directories through a logon script and
smbmount or some other network fs mechanism. We will "pamify" other services
such as sshd and apache so that most of the authentication on Linux will be
filtered into PAM.

Thien Vu
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan" <hutchins at opus1.com>
To: "Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM" <samba-ntdom at samba.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 10:01 AM
Subject: Linux as an NT Client


> OK, it looks like seamless integration of a Linux box as an NT
> client/workstation is a work-in-progress, not quite ready for play yet.
>
> Still, the methods for joining a domain look workable if we could document
> them with a little more depth.  If anyone can help with some advice beyond
> the current NT Domain FAQ on getting the current stable release to
properly
> map NT accounts to Linux accounts, how to create the Linux account list
from
> the NT account list, how smbsh is supposed to be set up and used, I would
> appreciate the help.
>
>