On 10-06-11 02:16 PM, TekBudda wrote: >>> 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. > The user profile is not the problem, it is the ThunderBird profile. G:\application data\mozilla\...(etc.) will have little meaning if you try to use the same TB profile under Linux.
> 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 The slashes are still going to trip you up. A work around is to run the Windows version of TB under TB with wine. This seems wrong to me somehow though :) > 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. IMAP is stored on the mail server. You can limit the amount of local disk space that Thunder Bird uses for it's cache to alleviate this issue. The POP accounts are going to be more difficult. When I had a Shaw email account I had set up fetchmail to grab it and dump it into an IMAP folder. > > >>> 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 just store everything on a network share. Since my laptop is my day to day machine when I am out and about, I just try to keep my data synchronized with the server in the basement. Then all the machines at home simply read and write to the network share. >> 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 no longer use Outlook or Office so I can't really help here. > > 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. > Bell and Telus both have HSPA+ networks now, so if you have an unlocked phone they should work on the big 3 (Rogers, Bell, Telus). Wind uses different frequencies so their phones will not work on the other networks. Something to be aware of at any rate. > >>> 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 You do mean SFTP right? Filezilla and WinSCP are two very good Windows clients. FTP should be avoided. > then be connecting an external drive to that box & syncing the 2 so > that I have a portable backup solution. SOmneone else suggested a I have a cron job that calls a script that wraps rdiff-backup so that I can preserve previous versions. The script dumps a copy to my DNS-323 and then to my rsync.net account. > 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. > I am in the middle of installing and configuring gluster at the moment. The plan is to have something that keeps my laptop automatically in sync with the server in the basement. I am looking in to a couple of solutions. There will probably end up being a presentation out of all this, though not for a couple of months. > >>> 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 I am not sure how well having a DHCP server on the CentOS BDC will work (in other words I am not sure that this service can be integrated with AD). > 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 This is not just working with bind, you need to accept updates from Active Directory. The last time I worked with someone who did this it was a non-trivial task. I think that this has become easier to do since I last looked at it (~2003 or so), but it is still not something I would do unless I had to. > shoudl be ok with it...although DNS always seem like a blackart at > times...but maybe that is just me. I have been working with DNS for more than a decade, so it seems reasonably straight forward to me at this point. The O'Reilly Bind/DNS book was awesome. If you feel like you need to brush up on DNS I highly recommend it. The book I have is a couple of editions out of date. The latest edition is likely even better.
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