Re: Anybody use NIS on a mixed network?

From: Dave Hafner (DHxxxx_at_inette.com)
Date: 12/10/03 

Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 22:34:01 -0600

> What exactly are you trying to accomplish, and what is your current set
> up ? For example, do you want to use NIS to autheticate logins from
> Windows desktops ? or just make resources on your *nix boxes available
> to your windows clients ? How are you autheticating windows users now ?

I guess my post was a little lacking in details.

Yes, we want full Domain authentication and all the other good stuff that
a Novell network will provide. I know that NIS is lacking in top end
security but either LDAP or Kerberos should fix that.

We have an old Novell school district network that has to be upgraded this
summer. Since Novell is in total chaos at the moment we are not sure that
we want to spend any more time and effort in upgrading to a network OS
that is going away. (Yes, I know that Novell is changing over to Linux,
but this is a company that has not made one successful product outside of
their mainstream OS and has an unequaled history of snatching defeat from
the jaws of victory. Corel, Word Perfect, they GAVE Unix to SCO!!!)

Nonetheless, our network of 4.0 and 5.0 servers vastly outperforms the
other districts with NT platforms. We can maintain our stuff with one
full and one part time techie. THEY need 3 different service providers
just to install Exchange. Despite the above, we like Novell and have very
few problems with it. But, off the soapbox...

The network has about two thousand clients, all windows and about 10
Novell servers. The servers are connected by gigibit backbones.

We will keep windows as our desktop for now, but are looking at replacing
all the Novell servers with a Linux network. If everything was Linux, I
wouldn't even do much planning since the problem would be trivial. But
making windows use Linux as the network OS is something that we have not
done much of. Fortunately, we have lots of time and plenty of test
resources to try stuff with.

Was just asking for experiences from people who use Linux as the server
farm and windows as the desktop.

DH

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