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I've got a network set up in the house with a Windows 2003 DC, a Windows 7 Workstation and a host of VMs doing various tasks running either XP Pro, Ubuntu or FreeBSD. Ideally I would love to have domain credentials work across all machines so that I could more easily manage identities, passwords etc.

Is there a good way to implement non-windows clients on a Windows domain?

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Linux has PAM. This is great for setting up all kinds of fun unusual authentication. In your case, you want something like LDAP/Kerberos, where the Win2k3 DC servers as the source. Check out this doc on how to configure PAM to authenticate using winbind.

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I have found likewise open works well and is easy to install.

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That looks like a great option. I'll give it a go this weekend! – kdmurray May 27 '09 at 2:01
Report back how you like it. I seem to recall trying this, but not getting too far. – Brent May 27 '09 at 2:34
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The tool you want is winbind, which comes with samba. You can use this to register a machine on a windows domain. Password authentication against the domain can be done with pam_winbind. If your users have home directories on a win2kx server you can use SFU (Services for Unix) to export them via NFS off the server or mount the directory via samba.

A description of this can be found in the Winbind HOWTO on the samba web site.

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