On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Peter Roots <[email protected]> wrote: > I am thinking about installing ebox and have a few questions, I wonder if > anyone can help?
Sure :) > I see, from the documentation, I can use data stored in ldap to authenticate > windows clients. Most of my machines are linux - can they authenticate via > ebox or must this be set up separately? They can authenticate against the eBox LDAP too. You'll have to set it up in the linux clients manually. There is an experimental package for Ubuntu to automate this but it does more things that you probably don't want: http://trac.ebox-platform.com/wiki/Document/Documentation/EboxDesktop Ask if you have any problem with the set up in the clients. > Can the shares, set up by ebox, be served to linux machines by nfs rather than > samba using ebox or must I manually export them? Not by eBox, you'll have to do it manually. > If I set up http to authorize and filter and my windows or linux boxes > authenticate via ebox, will this cover http access or do they get asked to > authenticate explicitly for http access? I hope they are not separately asked > but the documentation did not make it clear what happens. They will be asked twice. Sorry about this, we'll try to work on it :) > If I understood the documentation correctly I assume I could define a group > with any internet access (filtered http content if required) and another with > just, for example, access to pop3/smtp only and one with no access at all to > the wide and worrysome world in any shape or form. Is this a correct > interpretation? - I do hope so. Yes, you can do that. > Lastly, could I start off with a gateway box (dns, dhcp, http proxy, ldap etc) > so users could safely access the net and authenticate. Later add another ebox > to do groupware or web server perhaps. Could I, using ebox, also have a > second ldap server and sync it to the original one so users could still > authenticate on the network even if we lost the gateway temporarily? Starting with the alpha-series 1.3.X you can configure an eBox as slave of another one. At the moment, that basically means that they basically share the users and groups. They are automatically replicated so if the master is down the slave can indeed be used for authentication. You can configure the clients so they use both LDAPs for auth, so if the master fails they automatically use the slave without any manual operation. > Many thanks for you help - from what I have read, so far, ebox looks like it > might be just the thing I need but I'm not yet sure. You are welcome, feel free to ask again if you have any doubts :) -- Isaac Clerencia - Developer [email protected] eBox - Computer Networks Made Easy! eBox Technologies at www.ebox-technologies.com Download eBox at www.ebox-platform.com _______________________________________________ ebox-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ebox-platform.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ebox-user
