I have a SERIOUS project. My university is moving its network file space from NT (with crappy appletalk support) to a NAS (Network Attached Storage) box that only shares via CIFS (windows) and NFS.
The current solution we're working on is netatalk and NFS so that a UNIX box can proxy appletalk connections for the NAS box, but it requires that we have users on the local system so that appletalk processes can be spawned off as the appropriate user, AND we can only get it to use plaintext appletalk passwords. This sucks even worse than the old NT solution:
Can I get Mac OS X (or darwin) to allow logon according to kerberos or LDAP (whatever win2K uses) so that we don't have to duplicate every account on the proxy box? Could I get it to transport the passwords encrypted?
I'm gonna try some stuff, so if no one else has any input, this will be my own personal saga thread.
The current solution we're working on is netatalk and NFS so that a UNIX box can proxy appletalk connections for the NAS box, but it requires that we have users on the local system so that appletalk processes can be spawned off as the appropriate user, AND we can only get it to use plaintext appletalk passwords. This sucks even worse than the old NT solution:
Can I get Mac OS X (or darwin) to allow logon according to kerberos or LDAP (whatever win2K uses) so that we don't have to duplicate every account on the proxy box? Could I get it to transport the passwords encrypted?
I'm gonna try some stuff, so if no one else has any input, this will be my own personal saga thread.