Authentication Nightmare

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Not quite sure where to post this one. This is the current state of a
network I "inherited":

The clients are a mix of Win98 and Win2K, which I am responsible for
maintaining. They login to a Novell server(s), which I do not control, and
login to the local workstation. If it matters, the dns and dhcp servers, etc
are on the Novell side of things.

Behind a contivity box I have a Win2K domain, with a combination of terminal
services/file/database servers. The servers themselves can only see
machines that are also on "inside the box" on the closed network.

After authenticating to the contivity box (using credentials stored on a
smart card), users connect to terminal services via a web interface, at
which point they authenticate to the domain. Then they login to the database
app, but thats *another* story for another day.

The poor users are just overwelmed with a zillion passwords and I'm going
nuts trying to support this.

What I'd like to have is a server outside the closed network that users can
authenticate to on initial login. But then how do I get the servers behind
the box to recognize their credentials.

And did I mention the 2 standalone Win2k and WinNT servers (currently out on
the open network) they want merged into the closed network like yesterday?
At which point I inherit another 50-100 users, some of which already exist
on the domain, some don't.

Looking for any suggestions at this point. In short...

HELP!
 
Not sure if this is what you are looking for. The Contivity is able to
use an existiong database of usernames to authenticate users to. It
will run with Win2k Active Directory, Novell or Netscape (those are
the ones that I have had it work with). So basically, you could
authenticate your users directly into your Windows Domain or your
Novell network. To do this you need to set up "LDAP Auth" or "LDAP
Proxy" (as it is now called) on the Contivity. You need to be at least
Contivity code 4_xx for this to be available.

Hope this helps

Rossi
 
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