The migration path is not always obvious. One way to unite these systems to have single authentication would be to use LDAP. Recent Netware and MS Active Directory both understand LDAP and are suprisingly not dependant on a specific implementation. That is not to say that this would be a plug and play migration either. However, by setting up or tapping into and existing LDAP infrastructure, migration could move almost transparently...
One small catch, while LDAP is quickly becoming popular, not a lot of people seem to know it, myself included. LDAP would be a great mini series to have at the meetings. -----Original Message----- From: Jeffrey Yep [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 4:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Migrating Windows or Netware based network to Linux??? Hi everyone, These are the scenarios I wanted solve for my curiosity :- 1) A Windows 2000 or NT based network with Windows 98/2000 clients 2) A Novell Netware based network with Windows 98/2000 clients I know to implement file, print, mail, database, firewall, proxy, webhosting services (did I miss any?) with Linux is not that tough with the documentation available. But what I'm trying to find out is how do you authenticate users from a single point as in Windows 2000 Active Directory, Windows NT domain authentication or Novell Netwares NDS authenticaion? Also, suppose you don't want Windows 98/2000 acting as clients but a Linux desktop, then how would you implement authentication? Any ideas? I'm just doing this for purely research purposes just in case I ever do convince the department to make the migration. Thanks in advance, Jeff _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.
