Sharing Authentication between Windows and Linux

[jimlong at engineer.com (Jim Long)]

> From: Joshua Pollak <pardsbane at offthehill.org>
>
> 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?

With Windows Services for Unix 3.5 you can synchronize passwords between NIS and Windows domains. I think you can also run the NIS server on Windows. SFU also has a client, server, and gateway for NFS, and allows you to run Unix programs on a Windows Server. It's free to download. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/ 

Jim Long