[Samba] Single Sign On, authentication, and Windows XP Home

[Ryan Novosielski]

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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

Take a gander.

Matt Lozier wrote:
> Yes, this is all correct and I fully agree with everything that Gaiseric has
> said.  However, the problem I'm dealing with is that I *still* have XP Home
> machines that I need to work with.  Until these are phased out, and replaced
> with Pro Ed., I'm stuck if I want to implement SSO -- I think, unless I run
> an LDAP server and install pGina with the LDAP plugin.
> 
> I didn't want to have to go this route, but I think that it may be the only
> option available!
> 
> Thank you to everyone for their input --
> 
> ---
> Matt 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-bounces+mlozier=spindletopoil.com at lists.samba.org
> [mailto:samba-bounces+mlozier=spindletopoil.com at lists.samba.org] On Behalf
> Of Gaiseric Vandal
> Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 8:46 AM
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Single Sign On, authentication, and Windows XP Home
> 
> To the best of my knowledge, you can't join XP Home machines to a
> domain.   Which would be a major argument against ever using XP Home
> in a work environment.  (I realize many businesses buy this because
> they think it is cheaper.)
> 
> If you don't use a domain setup, if you have a user account for each
> user on the server at set the password to  be the same user's account
> on his or her own machine, the file access should be pretty
> transparent.
> 
> My experience is that once you have more than 3 machines in a
> workgroup, switching to the domain model is well worth the effort.
> (And I would suspect less effort then going with an LDAP or NIS
> client.)
> 
> just my 2c.
> 
> On Dec 21, 2007 3:11 PM, Matt Lozier <mlozier at spindletopoil.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>>
>> I have a small (medium?) sized network of about 30 XP machines.  About 2/3
>> of these machines are running Home Ed. while the other 1/3 are running
>> Professional Ed.
>>
>>
>>
>> I currently have two samba shares, and I'm using 'user' security.
>>
>>
>>
>> I want to implement single sign on, some way, somehow.  I've considered:
> NIS
>> and LDAP, but I can't get the NIS pGina plugin to work with my NIS server,
>> and LDAP seems like a beast to setup, though I'm willing to go for it if
> it
>> means that I'll be able to get SSO working.
>>
>>
>>
>> Does any one have any suggestions / recommendations?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>>
>> Matt
>>
>>
>>
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