LKF Setup

[Johnathan Falk]

One of the biggest things that linux users forget all the time is that
Microsoft doesn't have a monopoly because of their pretty desktop because if
desktop beauty was the deciding factor we would all use OS X.  The biggest
thing is that one a windows server you can have Ldap + Kerberos + File
Serving setup in under 10 minutes with no hassle. On windows its "Hey do you
want to install Active Directory? Ok I can do that for you type your dns
domain name and admin password POOF! I'm done."

I have spent the last 4 days trying to get Ldap + Kerberos + NFSv4 to work
at home with a little 6 node network and I can't even do that, how do you
expect me or anyone to try and deploy this at a business or a school?  Its
practically impossible to find a good howto on this, and then feeding ldap
information with ldif's? What the hell?! Yes I know this is standard but I
come from a windows world and to paraphrase the Mac people "it just works"
I am sick of struggling with this and pretty soon am just going to go back
to windows work stations.

If someone could give me a great (not just a good) howto on installing ldap
+ kerberos + NFSv4 for homedirs that would be great.  I'm on a all feisty
network.

Maybe in the next iteration of Ubuntu instead of just 1. DNS server and 2.
LAMP server, they could have another option Directory Server.

Johnathan Falk
Network Admin
Clinton Community Schools

MCP, MCSA, A+, Network+, Linux+,