Alphonse Ogulla said on Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 07:02:43PM +0300: > Hi all, > Other than using Samba, what are the other preferred modern methods of > authenticating windoze clients on linux servers. > > I'm working on migrating Netware 3.2 users and services to linux and need > basic authentication (user, group, password etc) and controlled access to > shared network resources from windoze clients. > > What I have in mind is using NIS or LDAP for authentication and NFS for > network shares but the problem is obtaining free/cheap client software. You _might_ get the above to work using Windows Services for Unix, which is supposedly free now. However, I think you're probably going to be better off using samba, perhaps with an LDAP backend.
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