Do I need LDAP or just Samba??

[R. Scott Belford]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Scott Balneaves <sbalneav at legalaid.mb.ca>wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 05:49:26PM -1000, R. Scott Belford wrote:
>
> > 5. Fedora's 389 Directory server, ported to CentOS, does not give you the
> > GUI for NFS and SAMBA.  It's just a great Directory server
>
> Looks like there's karmic packages here:
>
> https://edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-389-directory-server<https://edge.launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-389-directory-server>
>
> We've stabilized LTSP a goodly amount, managed to get edubuntu back on a
> dvd,
> and we've got a functioning Sabayon now that can actually be used.
>
> Edubuntu's sort of leaning towards making "offical" releases in sync with
> the
> LTS releases, with the intervening releases being "test" releases.  I'm
> thinking getting a half decent LDAP/Kerberos authentication stack for 12.04
> probably is a realistic goal.  It'll give us two years to what'll probably
> be a
> fairly large uphill battle.
>

If it helps, what I should have listed as number one is the Debian-Edu 'Main
Server' install.  It handles the LDAP services for your school or district,
and they long ago created a good system, managed with LWAT, for user
management.  One can then install as many LTSP servers as they want on the
LAN, and all IPs are hard-coded to eliminate user futzing.  A final profile
is for 'Standalone'.

Timing is everything.  We have a new Ubuntu LTS coming up, we have Debian
Squeeze possibly becoming stable soon, Debian-Edu has a new, stable release
coming out that re-integrates the Lessdisks magic for true 'fat' clients.
The uphill battle may not be so hard considering how close so many disparate
projects are.

It is the LDAP/SAMBA/NFS stack, with kerberos and tls for identity and
transport security, accessible via all workstations, all LTSP clients, all
remote VNC or FreeNX clients, and scalable via virtualization, replication,
or compression, that completes the Free and Open Source Education Network.
Given Google's announcement about youtube supporting html5, we may finally
eclipse the need for Flash.


>
> Scott
>
> --
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> Systems Department |  fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks
> Legal Aid Manitoba |  and stones."  -- Albert Einstein
>


--scott
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