Re: [Hampshire] Domain Controllers

2009-10-03 Thread Stuart Sears
On 03/10/09 11:16, Rob Malpass wrote: Hi all Can someone tell me please if what I'm trying to do is overcomplicating things? I'm thinking of setting up some sort of domain controller for the Linux part of my network i.e. to have my own (and any other family member's) user area under a

Re: [Hampshire] Domain Controllers

2009-10-03 Thread Hugo Mills
On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 11:16:39AM +0100, Rob Malpass wrote: Can someone tell me please if what I'm trying to do is overcomplicating things? I'm thinking of setting up some sort of domain controller for the Linux part of my network i.e. to have my own (and any other family member's) user area

Re: [Hampshire] Domain Controllers

2009-10-03 Thread James Ashburner
Rob Malpass wrote: Hi all Can someone tell me please if what I'm trying to do is overcomplicating things? I'm thinking of setting up some sort of domain controller for the Linux part of my network i.e. to have my own (and any other family member's) user area under a remote box as

Re: [Hampshire] Domain Controllers

2009-10-03 Thread Stuart Sears
On 03/10/09 13:12, Hugo Mills wrote: (**) ActiveDirectory uses LDAP for authN, and Kerberos for authZ, which is actually a better design than the common Unix configuration of LDAP for both authN and authZ. One thing that MS did get right... :) pedant well, technically, if authN ==

Re: [Hampshire] Domain Controllers

2009-10-03 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
On Saturday 03 Oct 2009, Hugo Mills wrote: On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 11:16:39AM +0100, Rob Malpass wrote: Can someone tell me please if what I'm trying to do is overcomplicating things? I'm thinking of setting up some sort of domain controller for the Linux part of my network i.e. to have my

Re: [Hampshire] Domain Controllers

2009-10-03 Thread Rob Malpass
So, a central fileserver combined with automount and centrally-stored user accounts. How many users / computers are we talking about here? Are they all Linux boxes or are there some Windows systems too? 4 users and for the purposes of this - all will be running Linux. I can move