>Dear Friend,
>
>You would be happy to know that if you have a scenario like that:
>
>A windows 98 machine, a linux server 6.2 or 7.0 and running Samba Server with domain logon functionality.
>
>It is quite easy to change a network password from 98 machine & that password will also be updated automatically on:
>1. Your samba user account
>2. Your desktop local account
>3. Your linux server user account.
>
>Even you will have logon scripts running & profiles saved in your home directory.
>
>means you will have a same setup & functionality as Windows NT.
>
>This is also a 15 minutes task.
>
>In case of messaging, Sendmail perfect installation & configuration is a 15 minutes task.
>
>Whatever you do on NT, you can do on Linux & more.
>
>Only requirement is the expansion of your knowledge. Even it doesn't need any developing research.
>
>Thanks & Regards,
>
>Sanjeev fron New Delhi, India

And, you can do similar things with xdm, gdm or kdm on remote server logins.
See page 108 of the September issue of Linux Journal.

JLK