Is it possible on a LAN with Linux, Irix, and Windows clients for users to have access to all clients by using the same username/password, but without redundancy? So to add a new user, I would go to one server and make the switch and it would then be usable on all clients.
NIS, LDAP, and using samba as a PDC have all come up as possibilities in my googling, but the discussions I've found don't really address my concrete concerns. NIS or LDAP seem like possibilities for unix-only networks, and samba looks good for a bunch of windows clients and a linux server. But all in one network? So I'm punting and tossing the question to you guys. Should I pursue this further, and if so, which of these (or some other acronym) is most likely to achieve my goal? If I am understanding, the NIS approach (server gives updated passwd files to clients) is different from the PDC/samba approach (server provides authentication service directly). (LDAP I don't understand at all.) These don't seem very compatible. I guess you could glue them together by having the samba PDC use NIS to get its user info as if it were a unix client. Right? Or you might need a tool (or a person) to do some conversion to keep the master unix user data and the pdc user data in sync as people change their passwords, users are added and deleted, etc. Detective Dave
