Original Posting:
How can I authenticate a user logging into an NT workstation on a UNIX
platform.
Or more broadly, how do I authenticate users at the desktop on a UNIX
machine.
Responses:
Digital have a product called PATHWORKS 6.1a (Advanced Server) which
basically turns your Digital UNIX box into an NT Primary Domain Controller.
So the Users login box has username, password and domain. The desktop
doesn't know the difference between you UNIX NT Server and a normal NT
Server. Secondary Servers can be setup over TCP-IP and the all
update/updatedby the primary server. Of course it is also the NT name
server, browser master ... etc etc..
There is also a Novell 4.0 version which does similar things.
Samba can authenticate users to shared mappings but whether or not it can
be a PDC is uncertain.
DCE and PC-DCE apparently can do it as well but the comment was that you
might have to put off buying the company jet.. (its expensive)
Special Thanks to Donald Rye and Mark Zander (Advanced Server) you were
spot on.
OTHER RELATED INFO:
SUN are releasing a similar product to Advanced server in the next couple
of months.
With this solution I can Upload the Advanced Server User Database straight
from my Oracle Database overnight. When a user comes into work or in the
students case wants to use a lab, they will have their access authenticated
against the PDC. If I disable a user in the Oracle DB they will not have NT
Desktop access the next day on any of our Six campuses.
That should keep me busy..
Steve..
Systems Manager/Progammer
Division of Information Technology - Riverina Campus
Charles Sturt University
Australia.
Received on Fri Aug 15 1997 - 01:21:38 NZST