On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 12:16, Dan Horth wrote: > Hi all - sorry for the off-topic posting - just that the list of consultants on the > samba site is horrendously out of date! I thought that this would be the best place > for me to find suitable resources... > > firstly I would like to say thanks a million to all the samba team for your > ongoing efforts and great product. I just wish I had more time to experiment with it! > > We have the startings of a good network setup here but I'm getting snowed under > with other work. I'm looking for interested parties able to provide me with high > level linux consultancy services to complete our setup, specifically: > > - SAMBA 3.0 BDC configuration tieing in to existing Win2K AD PDC > over CIPE VPN (ideally also Win2K AD PDC config / optimisation to suit)
This really isn't particularly practical at this stage. We can migrate a DC, but we don't currently have the tools for a real BDC, and it is an NT4-level one at best. Our migration code misses a lot of stuff, the clients will expect to 'just work' if we appear to be a BDC, even if we sync often enough (work is being done on at least managing that part). > - Configuration of group policies / profiles using SAMBA BDC / Win2K AD PDC We do not support group policies. > - Joining Win2K Workstations and WinXP Pro laptops to BDC Well, you never join anything to a BDC. The point of a BDC is that it is read-only. > - Setup backup solutions for Win2K Desktops, XP Pro Laptops, using linux > tools on the SAMBA BDC One of the things to watch out with here is that unix tools don't do a spectacular job of backing up windows, particularly things like ACLs and ownerships. Just keep this in mind when you decide what compromises to make. > and secondarily (ongoing work): > > - IPTABLES / CIPE Network setup / optimisation > - implementation of direct dial-in PSTN failover backup to CIPE VPN. > - other linux server admin consulting, including qmail, apache, bind, etc. > > The network in question is relatively small (8 W2K Workstations, 1 Win2K Pro server, > 1 RH9 Internet server, 1 RH9 firewall at main site, 7 W2K Workstations, 2 WXP > laptops, > 1 RH9 file server, 1 RH9 Firewall at remote site) Sounds like your setup (trying to implement both AD and Samba) is rather over-complex for this size network. Pick one, and use it. Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student Network Administrator, Hawker College [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://samba.org http://build.samba.org http://hawkerc.net
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