[gentoo-user] Re: Is the best solution still NIS+NFS?

2006-08-11 Thread Sven Köhler
few years later I setup a environment which shares the /home using NFS for the users and the authentication method was NIS. Is this still the best solution? My current environment is based on LDAP where all services use it. I configured PAM+NSSwitch, Postfix, and so on. Now, I want linux

[gentoo-user] Re: Is the best solution still NIS+NFS?

2006-08-11 Thread Anno v. Heimburg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But when the direction is windows = linux. How does cifs come into play? I don't quite get your question. CIFS/SMB is what Windows uses for its network shares. Using samba, Linux can both share and mount* CIFS volumes. Anno *) For mounting, you have to also compile

[gentoo-user] Re: Is the best solution still NIS+NFS?

2006-08-11 Thread reader
Anno v. Heimburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But when the direction is windows = linux. How does cifs come into play? I don't quite get your question. CIFS/SMB is what Windows uses for its network shares. Using samba, Linux can both share and mount* CIFS volumes. Oh