samba - Dec 2007 - Single Sign On, authentication, and Windows XP Home

Hello,

 

I have a small (medium?) sized network of about 30 XP machines.  About 2/3
of these machines are running Home Ed. while the other 1/3 are running
Professional Ed.  

 

I currently have two samba shares, and I'm using 'user' security.

 

I want to implement single sign on, some way, somehow.  I've considered: NIS
and LDAP, but I can't get the NIS pGina plugin to work with my NIS server,
and LDAP seems like a beast to setup, though I'm willing to go for it if it
means that I'll be able to get SSO working.  

 

Does any one have any suggestions / recommendations?

 

Thanks,

 

Matt

Matt Lozier skrev:
> Hello,
>
>  
>
> I have a small (medium?) sized network of about 30 XP machines.  About 2/3
> of these machines are running Home Ed. while the other 1/3 are running
> Professional Ed.  
>
>  
>
> I currently have two samba shares, and I'm using 'user'
security.
>
>  
>
> I want to implement single sign on, some way, somehow.  I've
considered: NIS
> and LDAP, but I can't get the NIS pGina plugin to work with my NIS
server,
> and LDAP seems like a beast to setup, though I'm willing to go for it
if it
> means that I'll be able to get SSO working.  
>
>  
>
> Does any one have any suggestions / recommendations?
>
>  
>
> Thanks,
>
>  
>
> Matt
>
>  
>
>   
What applications do you want sso for?

You might be interested in Mandriva directory server
http://mds.mandriva.org/wiki/Documentation

-- 
Rune T?nnesen
Bedste Hilsner/Best Regards

To the best of my knowledge, you can't join XP Home machines to a
domain.   Which would be a major argument against ever using XP Home
in a work environment.  (I realize many businesses buy this because
they think it is cheaper.)

If you don't use a domain setup, if you have a user account for each
user on the server at set the password to  be the same user's account
on his or her own machine, the file access should be pretty
transparent.

My experience is that once you have more than 3 machines in a
workgroup, switching to the domain model is well worth the effort.
(And I would suspect less effort then going with an LDAP or NIS
client.)

just my 2c.

On Dec 21, 2007 3:11 PM, Matt Lozier <mlozier@spindletopoil.com>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
>
> I have a small (medium?) sized network of about 30 XP machines.  About 2/3
> of these machines are running Home Ed. while the other 1/3 are running
> Professional Ed.
>
>
>
> I currently have two samba shares, and I'm using 'user'
security.
>
>
>
> I want to implement single sign on, some way, somehow.  I've
considered: NIS
> and LDAP, but I can't get the NIS pGina plugin to work with my NIS
server,
> and LDAP seems like a beast to setup, though I'm willing to go for it
if it
> means that I'll be able to get SSO working.
>
>
>
> Does any one have any suggestions / recommendations?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Matt
>
>
>
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