Hi, There could be many ways to achieve this. But go for a small lab first using Virtualization.
Use LDAP separately and NFS separately so that both will not fail at the same time. If you implement both in the same high end desktop (which you are saying when you write that there is no server), with this at least there will not be any single point of failure. Also I would recommend the following Zentyal - for LDAP and other important things like Firewall etc., and in case you need to provide the email also to the students - you can give that also Go for a storage unit using either FreeNAS, Nexenta or OpenFiler. All of these will be supporting NFS protocol. The basic reason for suggesting these things would be to have more features than what you have been asking as at a later time you might be needing those. One more reason is that all these have a good GUI which will be useful as the time goes by. Also you can look at Proxmox which is based on KVM (also OpenVZ support is there) for Virtualization. (www.proxmox.com) just launched a new version with Live Snapshots With Best Regards* TSS Ravi Kumar * _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
