How to start a revolution?

[JoeHill]

On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 15:39:02 -0400
Byron Sonne <blsonne-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> uttered:

> If the option presents itself, some type of diskless (NICs with boot 
> ROMs) workstation setup sounds like it might work out for you.
> Depending on who logs in, the appropriate image gets executed and then
> personal dirs get mounted, either via NFS or SMB. It's easier to
> manage and probably more cost effective, and if you don't use thin
> clients you still have chassis' around so you can play with hardware.
> Speaking as a 31 year old 'kid', I know I love playing with hardware
> ;)
> 
> As for what mechanism you'd use to do this, I don't know. I'm not a
> fan of kerberos but I know that the hospital I used to work at was 
> implementing a single sign-on LDAP project across unix and windows 
> envionments, but I've never implemented LDAP and don't know enough
> about it to hold an educated opinion. I've seen NIS/NIS+ and NFS used
> to accomplish just what it is you're after, though, and it is the
> classic unix method of doing it :)

The recent Samba 3 release might be the easiest method, it provides all
of the functionality of a Windows 2000 domain controller, and according
to reports, does it better too.

-- 
JoeHill
Registered Linux user #282046
Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Nothing is as simple as it seems at first
	Or as hopeless as it seems in the middle
		Or as finished as it seems in the end.
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml