LDAP Authentication

[Patastrophe]

I've been assigned the task of maintaining a computer lab full of Linux computers for the Computer Science department at my school. Every computer in the lab is a LInux computer, and it's the only LInux lab we have on campus. I'd like to set up pam_ldap so that users can just user their network name/password to get onto the lab computers...taht's not a difficult task pretty straightforward according to the documentation that the module has with it. Every student has a network share for storing documents, what I'd like to be able to do with this lab is create a folder under each person's network share (Their H: Drive over Samba....ironically our network admins use FreeBSD and Samba for all the serverside stuff, so they've been very helpful) called ~linuxlab or something...which woudl be hidden to Windows computers, but that would serve as the user's linux lab directory. That way, they can save files there and keep their KDE/gnome settings from one lab computer to the next. I'd like to know how this would be possible, any ideas, I've kicked around a few ideas, but most of them involve having the user enter their network password twice (once for LDAP, then a script would promt them to mount their SAMBA shares...) not sure, though. Any suggested books on the subject...or any feedback would be greatly appreciated, thx!

[geforce]

It's hard to say...

Does your samba server uses /home/username ? Then you could use LDAP + NFS and simply have them automatically in their Samba's /home/username on the fileserver ?


So they would login with LDAP, and as /home/ is mounted with NFS on the file server they would be automatically in their home folder (the same Samba uses?)
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