Consolidated logins windows/linux

[Collins Richey]

Our company has split, and over the next 2 years our administrative
group will be taking over legacy applications from the main company as
well as new applications. We will probably not be able to avoid
Microsoft Outlook and all that that entails, yecch!

What we are interested in doing is providing a central authentication
facility for both OS environments. Obviously but sickeningly we could
base this on Active Directory. We use LDAP for the Linux environment,
and I've heard that with the use of Kerberos we could point the
windows machines to our LDAP server.

Currently, for our engineering users, we're providing Linux boxes that
utilize Vmplayer to provide Windows XP as well. That has not proved to
be 100% reliable. Frequent hangs, and RHEL4 thus far has not provided
a kernel that supports the sound card in our current HP desktop boxes.

We also would like to have single point login, ie retain an
authentication token of some sort and avoid having to login to other
machines after authenticating once.

Do any of you have experience with this environment, or can any of you
provide pointers? Yes, of course, we will be utilizing the mighty
Google tool.

-- 
Collins Richey
 If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries
 of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.