A practical newbie question

No webserver, gateway... question that every forum is full of. Here is a
practical question.

I have quite experience in setting Microsoft servers but all of that for
people who decided to pay for them. Besides I don't want to spend that money
for setting that stuff for myself. Instead I'd like to have a Linux based
environment (mixed one of course due to the windows licenses I already own).
So far I succeeded in setting server to serve as intranet webserver but now
I need to get authentification and authorisation role in the active
directory way (or similar). Actualy I'd like my workstations to be added in
some kind of local domain (I've noticed that linux terminology vary from
microsoft one so I may do some mistakes) so users can perform local loggon
that is checked on the linux server - and in extention depending on the
success of credential check they can or can not use local machine
(workstation). There's no need to say that this makes possible for users to
log onto different machines in that "domain" and have adequate rights (it's
up to domain group he/she belongs to) to use files, printers..., and all of
that administrated centraly.

And here is the question. What subjects should I focuse to accomplish things
above. However I need the best solution that Linux world offers. It's very
difficult to filter out all the howtos, tutorials regarding linux.

Thanx, Edi

Edi wrote:

> I have quite experience in setting Microsoft servers but all of that for
> people who decided to pay for them. Besides I don't want to spend that
> money for setting that stuff for myself. Instead I'd like to have a Linux
> based environment (mixed one of course due to the windows licenses I
> already own). So far I succeeded in setting server to serve as intranet
> webserver but now I need to get authentification and authorisation role in
> the active directory way (or similar).

Possibilities include:

- NIS (the conventional Unix way)
- LDAP (which was modified by Microsoft to create Active Directory)
- Samba's implementation of workgroups/domains in the MS manner.
- others


There is an abundance of documentation on all of the above. Google is your
friend. Samba may be easiest to use in a mixed environment.


Phil

yes. NIS and Samba can help you. MS has a page for that at
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro...ndows2000serv/
deploy/sfu/servnis.asp and an article on MS knowledgebase at
support.microsoft.com/?kbid=324083 too.

hope this helps.

raqueeb hassan
kinssasa, DRC

Is it possible to combine NIS and Samba on the same machine (if it makes
sense at all)? Services for Unix assume having Windows 2000 Server but I'd
like to have a Linux machine. NIS seems great but I've found some people
criticise leak of security and there might be a Windows integration problem.

Edi