How does one go about setting up a workstation to validate the logon credentials from a domain machine in a pure linux enviro? In windows it is not hard to join a domain and control logons that way, but so far I have always logged on to my machine locally?
Does one always have to logon locally in Linux and then logon to the domain controller?
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i may have misunderstood... but if not, then it is definitely possible to do what you want.

a NIS server, or an LDAP server, or another form of authentication server will perform the tasks you are looking for i think.

For example, a NIS setup could mean that your NIS server is serving password maps to all the client machines, so when you type in a username and password, it looks to NIS for information, and if it can't find any, it looks locally.

This means that if you have 20 machines, each user doesn't have to change their password 20 times... you just update the central NIS server.

is that roughly what you were looking for?

This is it, another thing I came across was Linux Terminal Server using thin clients. I will explore both. Thx very much.

check out http://www.tldp.org/ for great info/How-To's/Guides etc... on probably most subjects you are interested in, in this thread