Domain controller for Linux?

Adamal · Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 4:54 am Post subject: Domain controller for Linux?

Currently I have a Samba PDC for all my windows boxes that maps drives and such. Of course this is only for my windows machines. Is there something simular for linux. I know NFS allows me to make shares but it doesn't mount drives and such on my different machines nor does it have one location for all my users.
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adaptr · Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 3:14 pm Post subject:

If you install and configure NIS(+) you can map NFS mounts as users' home directories and create effectively the same situation.

Say your NIS server has a user "joe", then from any machine that is NIS-enabled you can login as joe and you will be connected to server:/home/joe instead of local:/home/joe (who doesn't even need to exist, just like a Windows domain).
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Adamal · Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 4:57 pm Post subject:

Thanks I'll look into that
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