Samba...and authentication

[element-x]

Ok...my topic isn't really to clear here but here my question goes:

I run a slackware 'server/gateway', and have a dual-boot debian/win2k workstation behind it. When I login to debian or win2k, I want to know if by logging in, that at the same time I can authenticate to any shares made available by my slackware machine?


eg. Like logging into a network machine, from the workstations.


I really have no idea how this would go about working, but if anyone has any pointers I'd be more than glad to research the heck out of it. I just don't know where to start.

[cowanrl]

Originally posted by element-x:
<STRONG>Ok...my topic isn't really to clear here but here my question goes:

I run a slackware 'server/gateway', and have a dual-boot debian/win2k workstation behind it. When I login to debian or win2k, I want to know if by logging in, that at the same time I can authenticate to any shares made available by my slackware machine?


eg. Like logging into a network machine, from the workstations.


I really have no idea how this would go about working, but if anyone has any pointers I'd be more than glad to research the heck out of it. I just don't know where to start.</STRONG>

You can run Samba on the server/gateway machine and set it up as a Windows NT Primary Domain Controller(PDC). When you start up the other computer using Win2k, you can actually have it authenticate i.e. login to the Samba server acting as the PDC. You can then map drives to the Samba server just like any Microsft server.
When you start up the other computer running Linux, it won't authenticate to the Samba PDC until you actually try to connect to one of the shares. You would log in to Linux like you normally would. You can set up the Linux machine to automatically mount shares on the Samba server when it boots up though.

There have been some excellent posts in the last few weeks here about setting up Samba as a PDC for Win2k machines. There's also some good posts about mounting shares on the Samba server from the Linux machine at boot up. Look through the last few weeks in the Networking Linux forum and you should be able to find the posts.

[element-x]

Thanks a bunch! :)

I'll be sure to take a good read through them, always interesting to learn something new.