[ale] user authentication?

[Christopher Fowler]

samba can authenticate from a PDC


On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 21:20, Stephen Turner wrote:
> ok so on desktops mostlikely youll want to run win2k for reasons of
> security, maybe winxp and on servers you would want the most scrapped down
> linux to make it more secure, less entrypoints. so i got the sql server
> coverd, the file shareing, the email, and the website, any other points a
> company might want? gennerally speaking? my MAIN question thats been
> bugging me is, how do you authenticate a user on a windoze machine?
> validate them to use your network? theres some kind of service linux does
> with windows that makes them log onto the network right??? i know windoze
> has it so im sure a linux guru did it too... what service is that? we dont
> want any straggler poping his laptop on the lan  and accessing the files.
> and with static he can just plug random ip's in till he hits gold.
> 
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