Very possible, the SAMBA package has what you need and it more the
likely already installed. Go to
www.samba.org and look at the faq's. You
want to convert the Linux box to windows authentication and that has
worked for at least 2 years now.
On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 12:06, Kurt Granroth wrote:
> Does anybody know of a case-study or HOWTO on fully integrating a Linux
> workstation into an existing Windows NT domain?
>
> I've got CUPS using the network printer using smb://username:password@DOMAIN
> and mounting shares back and forth works great... but there are a couple of
> problems doing things like that:
>
> 1. CUPS requires you to setup the printer to use an individual's domain
> credentials. If there are multiple users on the machine, that one person's
> credentials are using used. Not to mention that the username and password
> are freely viewable using 'ps' while printing.
>
> 2. Login user names and passwords are different between the Linux and Windows
> boxes. Yes, you can manually keep them in sync... but it's a pain.
>
> What I would like to do is make the Windows domain think that my Linux box is
> just another host in its domain. That means several things:
>
> 1. Login using the NT domain server as the authenticator. Mounting shares
> will no longer need a password since it's already supplied.
> 2. A Linux user will be able to print to a network printer in the domain using
> their own credentials (but hopefully not have to supply them again since they
> are already logged in).
>
> Is this even possible? If so, were can I find docs on how this is done?
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