[clug-talk] Browsing a Linux network

[Ian Bruseker]

On 6/26/07, Gustin Johnson <gustin at echostar.ca> wrote:
> I use samba/cifs for pretty much all file sharing these days.  smb4k is
> handy for browsing for shares on any given network.  On my own lan I
> simply have entries in my /etc/fstab for mounting the usual shares, with
> user names and passwords in a credentials file.
>
Ya, and for a small network (I'm talking 4 computers at home,
including the IPCop box) that's cool.  I was just pondering how one
would do it in a bigger network, where you don't know every computer's
name and IP by heart.  ;-)

> Single sign on would likely come from kerberos, just as it does in the
> Windows world (Active Directory).  Of course your server services would
> need to support kerberos (samba and ssh do).  I used to have kerberos
> authenticating samba and ssh, before I reduced the number of machines in
> my lan to 3, which makes that a ridiculously overpowered solution.
>
This gets me to thinking, does LDAP fit into this somehow?  I know
it's something AD does.  I'm wondering, how does one centrally manage
the user accounts?

Ian