greetings!

i have questions regarding linux & windows connectivity. i would like users to login on windows machine but the authentication will be on linuxbox that goes like this:

1.after the windows machine is bootup completely and windows username & password dialog box will appear, linux users will login with their username & password, can choose workgroups, eg. if a user will do programming stuffs, he will join the programming workgroup and execute programming executable files & save programming jobs on the linux machine.

2. there will be one linux box that will serve the entire network for web surfing, email,etc.

3. it's a school computer network where students can use windows machine to their jobs.

what do i need to do to achieve this kind networking?


thanks a lot!

earl m. alfeche

What you're asking cannot be covered on this forum. I have a similar setup at home, but I am not sure if you can set up multiple "workgroups" (you'd have to set up an NT domain, actually, to process logins on the Linux server). To have multiple NT domains, you'd probably have to have separate Linux servers (one per domain), but I may be wrong.

The best way to go about this is to download the SAMBA HOWTO collection (I used this same document to set up my network) which can be downloaded in HTML and PDF format from here.

Just to give you a hint, you'll have to set up a PDC server on your Linux box using SAMBA, and make your Windoze clients join this NT domain.

Good luck!

Do you really need more than one workgroup? What do you mean by execute programming executables? What OS is the Windows machines running? Is this for one classroom, one school or an entire school district?