[Fwd: Authentication in Ubuntu] <- support request

[Herman Bos]

Hi,

I have no experience with Mac domaincontrollers. Maybe you can give some 
more information regarding this?

If it has an LDAP backend, authentication shouldn't be a problem. If 
your using an Edubuntu terminal server, you could mount the /home from 
the Mac box with on the Edubuntu server with NFS.

If you want to do this with stand alone ubuntu machines, authentication 
is still possible, but its not safe to mount the home directory on all 
the machines.

Regards,

Herman
hbos at osso.nl



Jane Weideman wrote:
> Can someone help please?
>
> Thanks
> JaneW
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: John Atchison <j_atchison at tiscali.co.uk>
> To: janew at ubuntu.com
> Subject: Authentication in Ubuntu
> Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 19:31:21 -0000
>
> Hi Jane,
> I hope you do not mind me contacting you but I was looking at the wiki and
> found the article on Authentication. I have tried on several occasions,
> unsuccessfully, to authenticate Ubuntu to our Domain. I am not a Linux
> expert and therefore should be considered a beginner. I work as an IT
> technician in a High School and am trying to integrate Ubuntu into our
> system. Our domain controller is a Mac running OSX 10.3. We mainly use PC's
> in the school and it is the choice of our network administrators to use Mac
> servers. Is it possible to or will it be in Dapper to get this working? All
> our pupils and staff authenticate to, and have their Home folder on this
> server. This has to work without too much configuration if Linux and
> Ubuntu/Edubuntu (as my preferred distros) are to be used in our school.
> If you can help/advise it would be very much appreciated, as I am anxious to
> use Linux in a real world setting.
>
> Thanks
>
> John Atchison
> j.atchison at tiscali.co.uk
> john.atchison at chrystonhigh.n-lanark.sch.uk
>
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