On 17/09/12 16:34, Wayne Merricks wrote: > Hi, > > My understanding is probably completely wrong on this so I'm not > surprised at the "won't somebody think of the children" response. I > honestly don't know enough about the linux "domain" stack to have a > better judgement but seeing as he mentioned there were 2 Windows boxes, > it seemed like the obvious/only way to go (samba). I am glad to get any information I can on this subject. My two windows boxes are actually dual boot Win XP Pro and Win 7 Pro boxes (one triple boots into linux as well). XP Pro networking is generally straightforward enough as far as peer networking is concerned, however Win 7 and IPV6 homegroups not quite as clear. (From what I have been able to gather they are using IPV6 to set up homegroups and can use unrestricted tunneling with it through an IPv4 connection. So until 6 becomes the standard for all and 4 is relegated to the scrap heap confusion shall reign supreme.)
These two boxes are main and backup video editor machines ( ie Premiere, Photoshop, Video Studio and Avid Studio) I have one also that is linux with Cinelerra, Ardour/Audacity, kdenlive and kino with GIMP and Inkscape for graphics editing. The linux box I use as the main server machine, serves the NFS shares, MySQL DB's, serviio DLNA home video serving, web server and any streaming audio serving. The other linux machine currently is set up to be used as a test/research server as I refine the current network main server; once that is done I intend it to be a dedicated RD or Airtime box (depends on which one will lend itself the easiest to use to schedule video playout for me as well; currently RD is in the lead.) The main server has a number of large hard drives ( 1-1TB and 3-500GB) the 3 500 GB drives are ntfs and the 1 TB ext4. The multi boot machines have both systems as well of course. SAMBA is useful when any of the editor machines have rendered a final large video file of 2 to 6 GB such that they can be simply copied across directly into the server ntfs video store. It is also useful, at this point at least until Linux catches up with a bit more sophisticated production/editing packages to be able to access the final video files to non-destructively extract portions of them to include in future videos ( like one might find in TV station use for B-Roll or news archive clips). I also use an older Dell laptop for testing purpose (Win XP only so I have quick connect when troubleshooting network with ISP who only support windoze and will refuse to help if you aren't using a windoze pc at the time on the phone with them) and have a newer dual boot laptop Win 7 /Linux I use for travelling and mobile video editing/streaming. All the linux boxes start out with the same basic OS distro,web browser,rss reader, email client, and libre-office packages and in the absence of a network user profile share at the outset, each one has to have all the desktop prefs, bookmarks,rss feeds, and email accounts configured separately. Even the server is configured this way as well for the near future. After that it will eventually have X sessions removed an use remote access control. So I too am running a mixed bag of OS's and trying to get them to play nice together. If a lot of the tutorial and help and forum info was true basic plain language technical guidance it would make it a whole lot easier; however windows worlds are proprietary private corporate secret packages and the linux world is either long on Linus Thorv's histroical accounts and short on useful detailed big-picture tech info in plain language or else it is long on high design engineering conceptual design concepts as explanations and short on common daily tech plain language big picture explanations. I'd be happy to look at any web sites that might have example initializing profile scripts Cowboy mentioned if he can provide links to the sites. > > I'm always unfortunate to be building mixed OS "domains" but would love > any clear info on pure nix network setups with single sign on etc. > Especially if theres a nix way of doing things with open ldap/kerberos > auth that I can feed to Windows machines. Open LDAP is a necessity from > what I can tell as I need replication across WAN links to different > offices that aren't always reliable. > > Its something I've been struggling to get to grips with for quite a > while now. > > Regards, > > Wayne Merricks > The Voice Asia > > On 17/09/12 14:00, Cowboy wrote: >> On Monday 17 September 2012 08:11:48 am Wayne Merricks wrote: >>> Depends how in depth you want to go but seeing as you don't really want >>> to be setting up new users manually, Samba as a domain controller is the >>> way to go. >> Oh, Lord no !! >> >> Why do bad windows hacks, necessary to force windows to do what >> Microsoft only invented about 1998 or so, when *nix has had this natively >> since the late 70's ? >> >> Samba is merely a hack to allow windows to do badly what *nix has done >> very well for very, very much longer. >> >> Remember, at it's heart and soul, Windows is a single user single tasking >> video game that has been expanded, while *nix is a multi-user >> multi-tasking >> network based system at its heart. >> >>> I must admit >>> Linux "domains" have always confused me coming from a Windows background. >> Not too surprising, since Micro$oft has misused the term to mean something >> different that it historically means, creating confusion that didn't >> previously >> exist. >> Even today, Micro$oft still uses the same term for different meanings, one >> historical, and one made up, without distinction. >> Confusion is the expected result. >> > > ####################### > Scanned by MailMarshal > ####################### > > ############ > > Attention: > > The information contained in this message is confidential and intended > for the addressee(s) only. 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