Can Linux Server logon to NT domain

[kameta]

Is it possible for a Linux server to login to a windows 2000 doamin?

 

[ady2k]

Configure Samba on your linux machine.For more information :

http://www.samba.org

how to do it....
Good Luck.

 

[fluid11]

Look into Winbind, which is part of the Samba suite...

http://us3.samba.org/samba/docs/man/winbind.html

ChrisP

 

[dev23]

yes you can configure linux to logon into windows NT domain
All you have to do is configure /etc/samba/smb.conf file to suit your needs.

 

[fluid11]

Thats not true. What dev23 is probably talking about is the security=domain option which allows your Samba server to authenticate users against an NT domain.

To actually log into an NT domain you need Winbind.

ChrisP

 

[MorpheusNL]

If you want to access resources on a NT/W2K machine you could use the smbclient, just use an account that exists in the Domain. (eg: [DOMAIN]\[user])

Winbind is for mapping NT Users to unix users and use them on a Linux machine
eg: using NT Domain Server as a Password Authentication Server, that includes Telnet, FTP access, SSH etc (you name it, if you configure PAM to also check with winbind)

You can always configure a Samba machine to 'take part' in the domain (e.g. Print/File Server), so Security=domain is partially correct.

It all depends on what you expect to do 'in' the domain, if it's just getting files from a Server you don't have to make the Samba machine a Member of the domain. if you want users to connect to that machine you should consider using security=domain, and add the samba server to the domain.