Authenticating linux clients againt Mac OS X 10.3 Server?

[Nomad]

Hi,

This seems like the sort of question that should’ve been covered already, but i can’t find any information relating to my specific scenario..

I currently auth. Macs and WinXP clients against a Mac OS 10.3 server.

How would I go about configuring our new linux box to do the same? It would seem that I could either use ldap, or, Samba to auth. against the Primary Domain Controller.

Thanks

[andrina]

Are you looking to authenticate for login, or just to mount volumes from the server on your linux machine? If you’re simply looking to mount a volume on your linux machine you can mount over SMB using any user account that you currently have, or you could share out over NFS for the linux machine. If you’re looking to authenticate the linux machine on login to your server then you’re looking at LDAP authentication.

To do this you’ll need to install openldap on your linux box, and then configure /etc/ldap.conf to look to your OS X server. You’ll then need to use authconfig to enable LDAP authentication.

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