[KLUG Members] remote booting

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> What kind of server?

Exactly, what kind of server?

> If your server is a Linux server then you need to read up on NIS a.k.a. 
> ypbind and NFS as well.

If you can find any other method (LDAP, winbind, etc...) use that
instead.  NIS is slow and nasty.

> If your server is a Windows box, then you need to read up on Samba.

Winbind, specifically.

> If your server could be either one, then you need to read up on Samba-LDAP 
> and probably winbind.

To support rfc2307 LDAP clients from a AD server requires a module on
the AD server (but said module is free, even GPL'd).