[QUOTE][u]Quote by: MacTroll[/u][p]2) on RHFC it’s “authconfig” IIRC. This will walk you through setting up the LDAP auth settings and the Kerberos as well.

3) It’s usually easiest if you use the same for both. Not that you have to, but it does keep things simpler.

4) Yes, if you want to support Windows clients, you’ll need to enable the PDC. If you do enable the PDC, yes, you can have the same account, and the same home with a bit of work, across all 3 OSs.

5) You’ll have to read up on automounting NFS shares on Red Hat, should be readily googleable.[/p][/QUOTE]

once again mactroll, i’m grateful for your input…

2) if i use “authconfig”, does that also take care of the home directory? while googling i see that one is suppose to add an entry in the “common-session” pam module, ie, something like that “session required pam_mkhomedir.so skel=/etc/skel/”… what does that mean? where does it create the home folder? is it on the server or on the client?

4) would you be able to help me achieve this setup?

thanks

hello MacTroll

its seems you gave up on me, but no worries i’m starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel…

this is what i’ve learned in the last 2 weeks… please bare in mind that the OD and homedirs are on the same server…

1. i’ve finally managed to authenticate using Fedora Core 6 to the OD using kerberos… as you said, it was very easy using “authconfig-tui”…. but my boss still insisted that i use ubuntu as a client, so after 10 days of digging, i finally managed to get it to authenticate using kerberos… the only bizarre thing is that i have to put my password twice to authenticate… would you know why? i suppose it has something to do with my pam modules…

2. i decided to use nfs for the homedirs of the linux clients. to do so,
a) i used WGM (dah….), and did an nfs export of the “/Users” folder
b) still in WGM, under the “home” section of the accounts tab, i put these values….
Mac OS X Serve/Share Point URL: afp://example.com/Users/
Path: badgers
Home: /mnt/home/badgers
c) i mounted the nfs export on the linux client by modifying the fstab and adding this line to it…. example.com:/Users /mnt/home nfs rw,hard,intr 0 0

from here this is what i would like to do… would you be able to let me know if its good or bad?

Now that i’ve managed to get the linux clients authentication with the OD and using nfs to host the homedirs… it appears you told me that i could have “the same home with a bit of work, across all 3 OSs”. could you help me:

1. making the Mac OS X Clients access the same homedirs using afp
2. making the windows clients access the same homedirs using smb

thank you in advance for any input

Hello again Mactroll

i was on the apple server website and i help upon this quote by apple…

“Network Home Directories

Home directories hosted on Mac OS X Server can be accessed from both Mac and Windows clients. This enables users to log in to any computer on the network — Mac or PC — and securely access all their personal files and system preferences from either platform.”

is that mambo jumbo, or a trick quote?

by the way, do would prefer me to create a new thread for this topic?

thank you jerkyjerk for your info… its was much appreciated… but i didn’t use it cause i managed to already authenticate using ubuntu 7….

as for uncle B, i’m busy working on my ubuntu 7 client authentication howto and once its done, i shall post it here…

but i’m still not clear on how to unify all 3 OSs to have one homedir and have what apple says….

quote:

“Network Home Directories

Home directories hosted on Mac OS X Server can be accessed from both Mac and Windows clients. This enables users to log in to any computer on the network — Mac or PC — and securely access all their personal files and system preferences from either platform.”

i just wander why to they mention something like this when you have to bend over backwards to unify windows and unix homedirs….

i think i must have missed something or i’m just assuming to much…

but i’ll go check systemboy’s setup again to see how he did it… thanks