cyberdiamond
11-13-2002, 12:36 AM
I have set up Samba to run on the Linux file server but would like everyone to have individual logins instead of group access.
There is around 2000 users and 200 computers! (windoze 95-XP atm) but I have just started to roll out Linux as desktops as well. :)
But the users use any computer so I dont want to have to put everyone's user account onto each one.
At the moment they are broken down into several groups but the problem I am having is people deleting other people in the same groups work.
The network is really two seperate networks on the same backbone one already has a NT 4 server that is a PDC for the Gov. administration.
The rest of the network is a Slack Linux box using Squid, DHCP, Apache and firewalls etc and the other box being the file server, backup etc.
Should I:
1). Setup users to be authenticated on the NT machine, hard because it is contracted out to another party (Gov. requirement) and I have not got Admin permissions on it etc.
2). Change the subnets so the machines can't see each other and set the file sever box up as a PDC, would that even work?
(Somewhat unpractical because a couple of users need access to both the NT machine and the Linux file server).
3). LDAP, I don't know much about this and the info I can find is more to do with creating phone/address books than anything else
Any good (easy to comprehend) tutorials using LDAP for this purpose?
If I had my way all machines would be *nix and it would be easier but changing the gov contracts is not easy!
Any better sugestions ???
There is around 2000 users and 200 computers! (windoze 95-XP atm) but I have just started to roll out Linux as desktops as well. :)
But the users use any computer so I dont want to have to put everyone's user account onto each one.
At the moment they are broken down into several groups but the problem I am having is people deleting other people in the same groups work.
The network is really two seperate networks on the same backbone one already has a NT 4 server that is a PDC for the Gov. administration.
The rest of the network is a Slack Linux box using Squid, DHCP, Apache and firewalls etc and the other box being the file server, backup etc.
Should I:
1). Setup users to be authenticated on the NT machine, hard because it is contracted out to another party (Gov. requirement) and I have not got Admin permissions on it etc.
2). Change the subnets so the machines can't see each other and set the file sever box up as a PDC, would that even work?
(Somewhat unpractical because a couple of users need access to both the NT machine and the Linux file server).
3). LDAP, I don't know much about this and the info I can find is more to do with creating phone/address books than anything else
Any good (easy to comprehend) tutorials using LDAP for this purpose?
If I had my way all machines would be *nix and it would be easier but changing the gov contracts is not easy!
Any better sugestions ???