[Samba] Single Sign On, authentication, and Windows XP Home

Rune Tønnesen
Fri, 21 Dec 2007 22:34:52 -0000

Matt Lozier skrev:
> Hello,
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> 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.
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> I currently have two samba shares, and I'm using 'user'
security.
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> 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.
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> Does any one have any suggestions / recommendations?
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> Thanks,
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> Matt
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What applications do you want sso for?

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

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