esOn Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 04:04:50PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Why doesn't someone develop a similar protocol to Microsoft's network > neighborhood and smb for Linux. So when you join a NIS like system that > it will automatically authenticate you on your Linux network with your > currently logged in user name and password. This way people that are > accustomed to using Microsoft networking could just migrate over with a > similar path. For users that are going to be desktop users they are going > to rely on a gui front end with something like network neighborhood. > Please let me know what you guy's think about this.
This is already pretty much possible when using LDAP. It's not quite as integrated as Samba, but it is a lot more robust and extensible. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]