RE: Networking Workstations

-----Original Message-----
>From: Jeremy Watkins [mailto:[email protected]]
>Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 4:29 PM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Networking Workstations
>
>
>I am fairly new to networking in Linux. Its there a way to do centralized 
>authentication and profiles (ie. like Microsoft DC's). So that when user's 
>are at the login screen they are actually typing in their info and then it
is >being processed by the server, mapping out their home drives on the
server 
>and setting up their profile (all info stored on the server).  Any help
would >be great! 

Hi Jeremy,

You probably want to look into setting up an LDAP database for
authentication and then using autofs for home directory mounting.  

LDAP is the new preferred way to do user authentication but the old way is
just to use NIS.

Autofs or automount is the new preferredway to mount use's home directories
and the old way is just to statically NFS mount then.

I would check into http://www.tldp.org/.  I would particularly look at LDAP,
NIS, NFS and User Authentication.  That's all I can think of for now.

Regards,

Mike Shaw