Re: Integrating Linux Desktop With MS Exchange Server

["Jorge R . Csapo" <jorge@completo.com.br>]

According to Microsoft support in my area, the only way to do this is buying
SFU (Services For Unix, IIRC) and install that on your PDC, then use NIS on the
Linux side. The PDC shouls appear as a NIS Master Server.

Probably there's some way of doing this with Samba, though. I think you'd better
start with the Samba documentation.

Finally, my own opinion: this should probably be done the other way around, with
Linux as the authentication server.

Jorge

assim falou Kumar, Pradeep (MED, TCS) (em 13/12/2002):
> Hi,
> I am sorry if I am posting this to a wrong mailing list. In that case,
> please suggest me the correct one.
> 
> We are currently running Microsoft Exchange 5.5 server. Now we would
> like to run Red Hat Linux on some desktops. 
> But we would like to have a unified logon procedure i.e all the windows
> users should be able to login on the linux desktop
> with their windows username and passwords. Whenever a user wants to
> login to the linux desktop, the authentication
> should be redirected to the Windows Primary Domain Controller. As a
> whole , it is just putting a linux desktop into
> a Windows domain. But all the usernames and passwords are created and
> maintained on the Exchange Server database and 
> and authentication of all users should be done on the Exchange server.
> 
> Please help me how to proceed on this. I would appreciate any useful
> information provided. What should I do to achieve this?
> What and all should be ruuning at Linux side? How to achieve this
> integration?
> 
> Thanks in anticipation,
> 
> Regards,
> Pradeep
> 
> S.Pradeep Kumar
> Pradeep.Kumar@med.ge.com
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