Linux AUTHENTICATING to Window AD Domain

[jstovall]

Hello All,
I wanted to know if you could set up Linux boxes to authenticate into a Windows Active Directory Domain. File sharing and printing is NOT needed, I just wanted to see if I could lock down the Linux boxes so that they would have to authenticate like Windows XP and 2000 to the domain for users to use the machines. I am asking so that we could keep one database of users for the two platforms.
Thanks in advance!!!:confused:

[jumpedintothefire]

Two thing to read, found them on my drive, should be at the samba site if you haven't install it yet:

/usr/share/doc/samba-2.2.5/docs/htmldocs/DOMAIN_MEMBER.html

/usr/share/doc/samba-2.2.5/docs/htmldocs/winbind.html

I have not tried to pull this off, no need, no win2k domain to play with.

Once the box is a member of the domain, use winbind as a relacement for login on the local box.

[jumpedintothefire]

For kicks I set this up with an NT4 domain, using windbind for login, like in the howto. Works great....