I've been using Linux Mint as a home desktop user for couple of years now. Very limited experience doing System Administration kinda things. I've volunteered to try set-up some of the following items for a friend. I intend doing it through a Linux server.
Thanks.
- Authentication service. Linux server should be able to authenticate a network of Windows machine users to login to their windows desktop. Each user will work on his/her own windows machine but just the login authentication is to be provided by a centralized Linux server. Ideally any user should be able to sit at any windows machine and be able to login and use the machine with their unique credentials.
- Centralized file/directory sharing service from the Linux server. Users logged in to the Windows machines must be able to access a shared area in the Linux server.
- The Linux server will also be used as an Application server. One of the requirements of the application is that it is supposed to work in a domain based network. The server should act as the head of the domain. For example, if the application searches our internal network for <ourcompanydomain.com> it should be lead to the Linux server.
Thanks.