Login to a network domain

Question

I have a laptop which is dual boot with Windows XP and Ubuntu 10.10. On Windows it always logs into the domain and I am able to connect to over ethernet since it is based on the domain.

However on my Ubuntu I use hostname as ubuntu which is default. How do I ensure that it uses the same hostname and domain as in Windows.

Is there a way to migrate the settings from Windows?

Thanks Madhava

Answer 1

There's a tool in the Ubuntu repositories called likewise-open that allows you to join an Ubuntu machine to a domain hosted by Active Directory. Once you join your machine to the domain, you can log in to Ubuntu using your domain account (although I have had to type in my full user name, DOMAIN/user, to get it to work properly).

You will need to have special "Domain Admin" privileges to join your computer, however; you may have to ask someone from your IT department to use their domain account if you don't have these.

Answer 2

To change the hostname:

gksudo gedit /etc/hostname

Replace 'ubuntu' with the new hostname. Save. Reboot. And for the domain name...

gksudo gedit /etc/hosts

which might look something like this:

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6

192.168.1.100 your-host.your-domain.com your-host