Scott Balneaves wrote: > On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 03:15:27PM -0500, Jim Kronebusch wrote: > >> I would really like to see LDM_SERVER be able to accept fully qualified dns >> names. Then >> I could simply point LDM_SERVER=ltsp.mydomain.com and set up a round robin A >> record in >> DNS where ltsp.mydomain.com resolves to either a single IP or a group of >> IP's. Then DNS >> would actually be able to handle the load balancing without any need for >> configuration >> changes on the server if a LTSP server is added or removed from the pool. > > So long as you set up the resolv.conf within the chroot, that should work as > expected. > >> Any updates on the status of local application support in LDM2, or isn't >> that related to >> LDM? > > We're still needing a good method for getting network auth going. I don't > want to say too much, but Matt Oquist and I banged around a couple of > ideas in #edubuntu a few days ago, and he's begun work on pam/nss module > that will do what we want without the need for pushing ldap down to the > client by, amazingly, doing the pam and nss stuff over the ssh link.
Network auth is NOTHING compared to the issue of mounting home directories over the net. That's where the challenges are going to come. I'm thinking some more fuse/ltspfs type magic will be required here. Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- edubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel
