>> 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. Sorry I should have fixed that. The drive letter is simply how it is referenced in WIndows. The path for the share is something like \\SERVER\USERDATA\PROFILES$ & \\SERVER\USERDATA\HOME$. The profiles gets handled automatically by its reference in AD & the Home drive is mapped with net use H: \\|SERVER\USERDATA\HOME$\Lisa.
I understand what you mean about the profiles being stored under a drive letter. I am wondering if in Windows if I created a map in My Network Places without a drive letter reference & then moved the TBird/FF profiles into that folder on the server... or even locally for that matter. For the most part Lisa access a shaw account through pop & a shared gmail account through imap on her computer. WE also have a shared profile & home drive (CamLisa) that I envision being used on a kitchen computer, but the drive N should be accessed on any of our logins. I know I oculd set up Linux & Windows TBird profiles but that would create duplication of the locally stored imap stuff which isnt that bad except that one of the folders is about 3 GB in size, whihc would now make it 6 for lisa & 6 for me...if you get what I mean. >> 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. WOuld the above work? I had the thought of having one set of shared folders (HOME & PROFILES) on the server & then both the Linux & The WIndows stuff being store din the same folder. Or would that completely bork things? > 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. I think I have used Zindus or somethign similar for syncing my contacts. I have also used Plaxo for keeping things synced with Outlook as well. I am evetually going to try 7 fold all of the is stuff togetehr. Right now everything is all over the place. Could I not use the contacts in AD & have those accessed across the network to be used with TBird, Outlook, etc.? I don't have an Andriod YET (waiting for Bell plan to die & for WInd to build more towers), but that is definately something I am looking at going forward. Even to get TBird & outllok syncing with Google (or whatever) so that I can use Motorola Phone Tools to sync to my Razr2 for now. >> 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). I think that is one of the ones I have heard about. Anothe ris OpenNAS or something? The plan is to have it go on a small form factor 700 Mhz box & use that as storage for everything. I will likley include ftp or som sort of remote access to it as well. I will then be connecting an external drive to that box & syncing the 2 so that I have a portable backup solution. SOmneone else suggested a project called gluster to do the syncing. From what he said it looks like a neat solution , but I havent had a chance to look into it at this point. >> 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). Yeah I knew I woudl need to have a dhcp server & DNS on the C|entOS box as well. I just skippe dthat part. Thanks fo rthe advice about the kerberos also. I have worked with BIND a bit in the past so I shoudl be ok with it...although DNS always seem like a blackart at times...but maybe that is just me. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
