The reason I asked this question is that when my future-mother-in-law comes over, I don't want to have here remember a different password for every computer. Sometimes she uses my laptop (Windows 98), other times she likes to play the games on my machine (Linux). Other times, she wants to use my future-wife's iMac. -----Original Message----- From: Mike Hicks [mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 11:42 PM To: TCLUG Mailing List Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Common Users? On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 10:37, Neigebauer, Ben wrote: > I-Mac with 10.2 > Linux with Mandrake 9 something > Laptop with Windows 98 (can make it windows 2000, maybe) > > I'd like common users with common passwords between all the computers. > > Should I set up a domain controller on the linux machine? When you have such a small number of machines, especially when they are different OSes, the benefits can be outweighed by complexity. However, I think you've got the best idea already. Samba can be set up to provide user authentication for at least two of the three (Linux and Win98), and I imagine it's possible to convince the iMac to go along with it (though I've never tried). If you also want to be serving out home directories, I would actually think it best to use a combination of Samba (for the laptop) and NIS/NFS (for Linux and the iMac), but the password management between those can become troublesome, and I don't even know how well OS X integrates with NIS/NFS (I would imagine it would work fine, though). -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ 1200 bps used to seem so / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ fast \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.530 / Virus Database: 325 - Release Date: 10/22/2003 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list