Greetings, Ive just achieved similar us NIS. It took me a few days but I managed to get it working:
This helped: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/36 Also there is something called LDAP but thats for another day with me. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OpenLDAPServer Have fun Michael Chris Rowson wrote: > Hello folks, > > I've been wondering for a while, how I could put in place some kind of > central authentication for a series of Ubuntu desktops/laptops. > > At work, I achieve this using Active Directory and Windows, but I > wondered if there was a Linuxified version of this setup. I've been > thinking of volunteering to get some community IT access up in the > local area, and of course being able to configure PCs centrally would > be great. There wouldn't be a great deal of money, so setting up a > Windows Domain would be out of the question. > > So, whats out there that would allow me to create users/passwords > centrally (but perhaps still allow laptops to cache credentials), > would allow me to have automatically mapped file storage (like a > mapped network drive in Windows), and if possible, help me to apply > some level of desktop configuration? > > Any advice? > > Chris > > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/