Sharing Authentication between Windows and Linux

[jjohnson at sunrise-linux.com (miah)]

Why not auth off ldap?  should work with winders and linux.

-miah

On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 03:50:31PM -0500, Joshua Pollak wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> My company recently purchased a SnapServer NAS device. We are trying to 
> migrate all of file server needs to this machine, both for Linux and 
> Windows machines. The trick is that to enable NFS for our Unix boxes, 
> we need to enable NIS, but to ensure security, we want to make sure 
> that the NIS and Windows authentication are syncronized.
> 
> We are mostly a Windows shop, and while our sysadmin is surprisingly 
> open to Linux solutions, Windows solutions probably are preferred.
> 
> 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?
> 
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