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  From: Andrew Harwood <aaharwood@bigpond.com>
  To  : LinuxSA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 20:30:42 +0930

Re: Central Authentication Server

on 12/05/2001 17:57, David Drury at idavid@smug.adelaide.edu.au wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>> At work we currently have about 20 PC's dual booting win98/linux (rh 7.1),
>> and 5 mac's running OS8.6.  What I need is some sort of method to allow
>> ANYONE to login to any of those, and have several drives mapped.  The
>> drives would be on a server running NT4, and several linux servers with
>> kernels 2.4.2 and 2.2.14.
>> 
>> I am in favor of samba in this situation since we are catering to the
>> windows users for the most part.  The macs can use appletalk.
> 
> Incase you don't know of it, investigate netatalk for the Macs. There is
> also a product to allow authentication to Unix server that I have ssen
> running in Computing Science at Adelaide Uni. I've no idea what it is.
> 

I suspect they're running Macintosh Manager, special software from Apple for
controlling large number of Macintoshes. I believe it can authenticate with
LDAP, which the CS department is now using for Unix authentication.

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