On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Yoav Luft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > My workplace has decided to adventure to lands of embedded Linux. As I am > the only one in my department with prior Linux experience, I was given the > task of setting up a Linux workstation that will be used as the host machine > for our embedded system. Since my only Linux experience with anything but > Gentoo is with Debian, and it's a bad experience, I have chosen to make the > host Gentoo-Linux. > Everything is well, and the machine is running and officially I completed my > task, but something still bothers me: > The machine is connect to the company's computer network. In the Windows > workstations, I log into a user that exists on the company's servers, and > not on the individual workstations, and when I log certain network shares > get mounted automatically (for example, "My Documents" sits on the server) > and so on. My username and password are used automatically everywhere on the > network, and so on. I assume this is the working of Active Directory, but my > assumption maybe mistaken... Anyway, I want to duplicate this behavior on > the Gentoo box, and I could find any documentation about it that I found to > be relevant. For now, I have a small script in /etc/profile.d/ that mounts > important shares, although the localizations is some what wrong and > non-English files appear as question marks (They should be in Hebrew). Can > anyone help me or point to some howto, guide, whatever that I might have > missed? >
As far as I know, don't take my word for it, in order to use Active Directory on a GNU/Linux host, you need to setup LDAP and have it talk to AD. Unfortunately I don't know how to do this, perhaps this will help: http://www.linux.com/articles/40983 . As far as non-English filenames appearing with question marks, you need to setup localization correctly. This http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/guide-localization.xml or this http://gentoo-wiki.com/Localization might help you get that setup. Once again, I've never done this, so maybe someone who has can be of more help to you.
