For authentication look at FreeIPA
And for unified storage Gluster with Samba 4 and CTDB will integrate your storage nicely.
-- Sent from my HP Pre3
On Dec 15, 2013 15:37, Jeff Siddall <[email protected]> wrote:
On 12/15/2013 03:17 PM, Larry Linder wrote:
> New project for next January.
> We are getting ready to expand our lab and plan to install a terminal with
> large displays at each bench. The bench will support one or two projects
> and I hate the thought of setting up 6 new SL 6.4's so there is access to
> schematics, parts lists, layouts, and drawings. In the past we have used
> NFS to do this. I have thought about setting up a VMware server and running
> SL 5.10 and Windows under it. The problem is how to tie it all to one or two
> servers in the shop without this turning into a big dog performance wise.
> Since we plan to use the same hardware we need to mod all SL6.4 so that
> Ethernet works correctly. SL5.10 works out of the box. We really like the
> Gigabyte boards and AMD quad cores. We quit buying other brands because of
> bad brown capacitors that bulge and start leaking before the board /
> processor fails. When you start replacing 50 or so boards it is a real
> problem.
>
> Wile we are at it we need to set up other boxes for shop, receiving and
> shipping with printers. I hate to say this we are still running a "sneaker
> net".
>
> We are basically an electronic engineering company that is looking more like a
> factory.
Sounds like the perfect use for LTSP:
https://fedorahosted.org/k12linux/
Basically a couple of packages to install on a normal SL system plus a
client image to install and you are good to go. there may even be a
live CD/USB if you want to try it out that way.
The terminals (clients) can be very lightweight and are typically
diskless (boot off the network with PXE). I mostly use Atom all-in-one
systems. Even the server doesn't have to be too big if you aren't doing
anything particularly CPU or RAM intensive.
It's a bit of configuring and messing around to get it all the way you
want it up front but having only one "box" to maintain is a sysadmin
dream and is highly worth the effort in my experience.
Jeff
