[Gllug] Windows -> Linux

[Richard Cottrill]

The concept is old, but being able to do this really well with SMB/Windows
Domains has only arrived in the most recent Samba distribution (v2.2.2 off
the top of my somewhat muddled head).

As usual corrections and clarifications are welcome.

Richard

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gllug-admin at linux.co.uk [mailto:gllug-admin at linux.co.uk]On Behalf
> Of tet at accucard.com
> Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 12:37 PM
> To: gllug at linux.co.uk
> Subject: Re: [Gllug] Windows -> Linux
>
>
>
> >Perhaps this is a little close to the bleeding edge for general
> deployment,
> >but...
> >
> >I like the idea of almost locking people out of their own machines and
> >having them SMB mount $HOME from the NT file server. I can see
> huge benefits
> >for managing the system (virus scans, backups, you name it).
>
> It's not at all bleeding edge. It's how Unix desktops have been run in
> large organisations for donkeys years. I do it like that both at work
> and at home (s/SMB/NFS).
>
> All you need is some kind of network filesystem, and a means of having
> shared authentication information over the network (eg., NIS, LDAP).
>
> The only tricky part comes when you have laptop users, but for static
> desktops, it's fine.
>
> Tet
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