Authentication (Score 1)

1. To authenticate your Linux box logons against the windows domain, you need to do two things: (i). create an account on the linux box that has the SAME username as the windows domain account. Don't worry about making the password the same, just the username. (ii). run the command "authconfig" from a Linux shell. Go to the section to configure SMB authentication. Enable it and put it your domain controller IP address(es). Now when you logon to the Linux box will use the windows domain controller to authenticate your password. There may be a way to do this without a local user profile on the linux box, but I don't know of it. It is still using the local profile, just verifying the password using SMB authentication back to the windows domain. 2. Shouldn't change at all in AD. We have the exact same setup in a win2k AD domain and it works just fine.