On 10-06-11 03:48 AM, TekBudda wrote: > Hi All, > > OI know I have sent a similar post to this before but I thought i would > update the information and approach it all in a slightly different way. > That & I can't find the old messages right now. > > I eventually want to add all of my Linux boxes to my AD domain, but for > now I am focusing on one of them. <snip> > I was able to install Likewise Open & get it connected to the domain in > a few minutes. Likewise also has a GUI as well, but the CLI is a simple > one line to join or leave the domain. Slick!!! She now has to logon > using "domain\username" as the username & her AD password. > I have never used Likewise. I have done this with PAM + Kerberos. I will have to give it shot one of these days.
> Up to this point I have been using roaming profiles to stores her > Windows data (TBird/FF profiles, documents on H drive, etc.) on the > server in D:\[USERDATA]\PROFILES\Lisa & D:\[USERDATA]\HOME\Lisa, with > the appropriate information going to the correct folder. Not sure how useful this is going to be since the drive letter is meaningless in Linux. This means that things like the FF and TB profiles are not really portable. You can script up a work around but this is a lot of work for little gain. > > In some of my discussions with people it was suggested that in order to > do the same thing (roaming profile) with a Linux box, that I should > create a "Profile-Linux" folder (using samaba) on the server that the > linux home directory would go in. But one problem that I would have is > having both OS's using the data for TBird, FF, My Documents, Audio, > Video, etc. > Most of the folders are not a problem. You could just sym-link the Documents, Pictures, Videos etc. from the Windows profile to the Linux one. The FF and TB profiles as I already mentioned have OS specific path nomenclatures in the configs of each profile. I use Zindus to keep my TB contacts synchronized with my google apps mail contacts. I also use IMAP for actual mail storage. This combination is pretty awesome, even more so if you have an Android phone. Blackberrys and Iphones have apps that can get you most of the way there, but I am already living the dream with Android. > My plans have changed a bit since that point in time & I am looking to > build a NAS (any suggestions for a good NAS software?) to store > everything on instead of the server. With this in mind, I am wondering > if seperate folders are even needed or would I still need to separate > things? To complicate this further, I also lookin at adding Mac OD X to > the mix & trying to do the same things. > A few of my friends are happy with FreeNAS. I personally have a Linux machine with a lot of hard drives (Linux software RAID and LVM FTW) that I share out the network via Samba. The clients include XP, Vista, Win7, Linux, and a couple of appliances (technically the WDTV Live is Linux based, but it works really well). > Rigth nwo I have Windows Server 2003 as the only server, but would like > to get it syncing with OpenLDAP running on CentOS as a BDC, until I > switch to CentOS/OPenLDAP running as the PDC & a virtualized Server 2003 > as teh sendary. > You may wish to look into Franky (http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Franky). Otherwise you will need more than LDAP to have the Linux box act as a BDC. You will also need to setup Kerberos and DNS (Bind) since both are also integral to Active Directory. I believe bind is easier to integrate than it used to be, but Kerberos can be a pain if you have never dealt with it directly (Active Directory is actually using Kerberos under the hood for authentication). > So that shoudl be enough for part 1. Any one have some suggestions? > Ideas? warning? etc? > Hth,
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