Topic: User authentication for fedroa core 2 workstation

[ddelorme]

Hi  
I am so sick of ms that i am moveing all my desktops over to Linux. My first hurdle is user authentication I would like to handle all passwords and groups though my E-smith /sme 6.01 box. I have had a hard time finding the apporperate documentation to do some thing that should be rountine. I am tring fedora core 2 as my desktop distro. any solotions

[dresserd]

It is possible to authenticate your FC2 box against your SME server using winbind.  Try "authconfig" on your linux box.  I struggled with this over the past couple of days but got it working today.

I had to use
client schannel = no
in the smb.conf on the linux client.

With winbind, I was able to get the authentication working, but that still leaves the file access question.  I'd like to see the authentication move to LDAP and then I could add NFS to have a complete solution.

I use linux on the desktop a lot and just started playing with SME server.  to integrate linux workstations, LDAP authentication is really the right way to go.  Is anyone working on this?  I'd like to help.  I am pretty familiar with Samba/LDAP