Single authentication with Windows (LDAP?)

[Juan Pablo Feria Gomez]

> The Linux boxes will be thin clients booting from an Edubuntu server. I
> can do pretty much anything on the Linux side, but they are not ready to
> change anything major on the Windows side.
>
> It'd be nice if the students could login to Linux using their existing
> Windows accounts, but that's by no means required. At worst I can just
> set up an account per PC (e.g. username "pc1" password "pc1") and tell
> the students bring a floppy disk and use sneaker-net. Any improvement on
> sneaker-net would be welcome.

Your Linux box can replace your PDC, then use LDAP to get the account info

http://www.unav.es/cti/ldap-smb-howto.html