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[oth-Tech] Sharing Authentication between Windows and Linux



On Thursday 26 February 2004 15:50, Joshua Pollak wrote:
> Is there anyway to have NIS and SMB authentication hosted by the same 
> machine? How would this be setup on Linux? How would we do this with a 
> Windows server? Does MS Unix Services provide this?


Samba can become part of a domain:
http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/domain-member.html

... and samba can authenticate via NIS:
http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-ntdom/1999-August/005965.html


Couldn't you just make the filesystem available _both_ via NFS and Samba?  So, 
if you're a UNIX client you'd go through NFS and authenticate via NIS, 
ignoring SMB.  If you're a Windows client, you'd go through Samba, which 
would in turn authenticate against your PDC.





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