Remote authentication

sinistamunkey · 02-09-2005, 04:06 PM

Hi there, I'm a bit new to Linux so I'm hoping someone can enlighten me.

I've recently started working for a small company that runs a Linux Samba server and every client is running on a workgroup.

I was wondering how to set up remote authentication.... and if possible having roming profiles?

I'm sure it's possible, I just have no idea what part of linux does it, I've seen bits of NIS but I'm not sure this is what I want.

Many thanks

Gary

david_ross · 02-10-2005, 01:27 PM

Welcome to LQ.

Which system do you want to store the details in? Do you want to link into an existing system? If you are looking to implement a central repository then LDAP is a good solution:
http://www.openldap.org

ridge321 · 02-10-2005, 06:56 PM

what flavor windooze your clients are running i have a smb.conf file i could mail to you and you could make the nessary changes. it's quite simple (i hate when people say that)