Re: [K12OSN] LTSP, Samba and LDAP as entire netowork solution?
Steve Langasek (vorlon@dodds.net)
Wed, 2 Oct 2002 13:03:29 -0500
On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 01:29:55PM -0400, Ritchie, Josiah wrote:
> I've been contemplating designing something like this for a college student
> environment. I want to setup labs to run LTSP and allow students to also
> connect the computers they bring from home up to it. Can things like XP
> Home and ME use this kind of a setup, specifically the authentication for a
> PDC and how hard is it to setup? (can a student do it themselves with
> written directions?)
> I can do individual LTSP setups for each lab, but how do I get all logins
> the same on K12LTSP, XP Home, ME, 9x, etc.
I'm not sure what your goal is in having student machines authenticate
against a central NT domain. This would mean that students must
authenticate against your PDC in order to log into their own machines, and
it also means that other students could log into their personal computers.
Moreover, with NT/2K/XP, the only way to configure this (AFAIK) is by
either making the student machines members of the NT domain, or giving
them a trust relationship with the domain, and I don't recommend
either configuration.
If what you're really after is allowing students to authenticate
themselves *to* a Samba machine in order to access shared files on the
network, this shouldn't require any special setup on the client side:
simply connect to \\server\\share from the PC, type in a password, and
you're all set.
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer
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