comp.os.linux.networking

Hi,
This is in response to your advice about a question I had posted to
this user group earlier. I meant that I want to use a Linux machine as
an equivalent of Windows Domain Controller. Such that no user of Linux
machines can be able to login locally. They should be authenticated by
the Linux "Primary Domain Controller".

Again thanks 4 ua help.

Kind regards,
John.

Robert Harris wrote:
> jkimathi wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I am an admin of 15PCs running linux and 20 PCs running windows XP.
> >
> > At the moment I have one domain controller(W2k) which serves the
> > network.
> >
> > I want to set up a domain such that users of Linux boxes can not login
> > locally. When they start their machines, they should be prompted by a
> > domain login and they shoul be aunthenticated by the domain.
> >
> > Please help.
>
> If you mean that you want your Windows Domain Controller to authenticate
> your Linux users, then you need winbind, part of the Samba suite.
>
> Robert