-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Gardner Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 11:51 PM To: BYU Unix Users Group Subject: [uug] Something Unrelated to Politics-- Linux and Windows Domain
I mentioned in an earlier post that I was interested in what CADEM does, Using an *nix system to Emulate a Windows domain and uses "Roaming Profiles". This is what I'm interested in doing. If anyone has any ideas, how-tos , or just a good place to start, Replies would be great. I have a free PIII system and a 40 gig drive. I'm only doing the network for 3+ computers. 1. Emulate a windows domain for logins, (be able to map network drives) >> Samba.org . I am currently using a samba server as an NT-4 style domain controller with roaming profiles (it is the fileserver for a W2K network) The recent released version of samba purports to be a replacement for W2K domain controller including Mappings for Active Directory. Network drives can be mapped in the usual manner. http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/ http://us3.samba.org/samba/ftp/docs/htmldocs/Samba-PDC-HOWTO.html http://us3.samba.org/samba/ftp/docs/htmldocs/using_samba/ch06_05.html This one is included in some of the pages above, but I found it to be most useful http://hr.uoregon.edu/davidrl/samba.html >> 2. If any of you are familiar with Novell's iFolder I want that type of functionality, for a laptop that will not always be connected but when I connect to my network my "My Documents" are copied to the server and are kept in synconization. [the main point of this step is that if I'm in a remote location I can get to all of the files in "my docs" via the internet. >> You can do this one of two ways, first, just keep the My Documents folder as part of the roaming profile. The local profile is synchronized with the server when the client authenticates into the domain. The my documents are then available through /home/user/profile/"My Documents" on the *nix server. I use this exact feature to allow users access to My Documents, the company file server and the "folder" Desktop via ssh. The second is with any directory you can "make it available offline" which will then synchronize when reconnected. Reference http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodt echnol/windowsserver2003/proddocs/datacenter/csc_working_offline.asp >> 3. I want Linux machines to be able to connect too. (this isn't as important as windoz boxes.) >> Not exactly sure what you mean here. Konqueror can browse (connect) to windows shares (via samba). I have heard that Samba can use Kerberos (evidently the new version). Knoppix includes a utility called "LinNeighborhood" that mounts samba shares or windows shares. >> Mark Gardner p.s. as I get going in this project the details and specs will become more concrete. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
