new memtest86+ (was Re: RAM Mapping Script)

2008-03-04 Thread Fran Fadden
I don't know if it will make any difference for this particular problem or not, but I thought the group might benefit from this as well. A while back, a friend forwarded a notice that there was a new memtest86+ in town. It is supposed to handle a lot more stuff. I haven't yet had a need for it

AD Authentication?

2008-03-04 Thread Kenny Lussier
Hi all, Does anyone know of any recent, good docs on using a Windows Active Directory server to authenticate Linux desktops? I am currently working in a place that has a Windows infrastructure (AD, Exchange, etc.), but we need to be able to use the existing central authentication for a new fleet

Re: AD Authentication?

2008-03-04 Thread Thomas Charron
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Kenny Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know of any recent, good docs on using a Windows Active Directory server to authenticate Linux desktops? I am currently working in a place that has a Windows infrastructure (AD, Exchange, etc.), but

Re: AD Authentication?

2008-03-04 Thread Mark Komarinski
On 03/04/2008 08:38 AM, Kenny Lussier wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know of any recent, good docs on using a Windows Active Directory server to authenticate Linux desktops? I am currently working in a place that has a Windows infrastructure (AD, Exchange, etc.), but we need to be able to use

Re: AD Authentication?

2008-03-04 Thread Matt Brodeur
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 08:38:25AM -0500, Kenny Lussier wrote: Does anyone know of any recent, good docs on using a Windows Active Directory server to authenticate Linux desktops? I am currently working in a place that has a Windows infrastructure (AD, Exchange, etc.), but we need to be able

Re: AD Authentication?

2008-03-04 Thread Thomas Charron
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Matt Brodeur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 08:38:25AM -0500, Kenny Lussier wrote: If you absolutely can't touch the AD servers you'll have to look at Samba's Winbind. IIRC, you'll want a separate LDAP server to store the SID-UID mappings,

[semi-OT] gnhlug-sysadmin

2008-03-04 Thread Michael ODonnell
Can somebody who's an admin for gnhlug-sysadmin please check that list's admin queue for an item from me? ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: OLPC Crisis: Customer Data Lost

2008-03-04 Thread Bruce Dawson
Just an FYI... I ordered my Buy1Give1 just before Thansksgiving. I got it yesterday. --Bruce Bill McGonigle wrote: On Feb 22, 2008, at 16:56, Bill McGonigle wrote: I asked them politely to expedite my refund and that I'll be looking into PayPal's Buyer Protection early next week if

Re: AD Authentication?

2008-03-04 Thread Lloyd Kvam
We have at least two Samba books in the library that look like they would be useful for this. (library links are below) On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 08:38 -0500, Kenny Lussier wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know of any recent, good docs on using a Windows Active Directory server to authenticate Linux

Re: AD Authentication?

2008-03-04 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Kenny Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of any recent, good docs on using a Windows Active Directory server to authenticate Linux desktops? Winbind -- part of Samba -- can act as a NSS backend, making Windows accounts appear as native Unix

Re: AD Authentication?

2008-03-04 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This will only be a problem if you are doing something akin to NFS mounting of drivers and maintaining permissions. In any serious Unix/Windows integration effort of non-trivial size, I would recommend going through

cron question / process queue

2008-03-04 Thread Kent Johnson
Hi, I have a server that runs regular daily, weekly and monthly updates, all scheduled with cron. The updates are lengthy - the weekly update now takes about 8 hours - and I would like for them not to overlap. I also want them to run at night, for some reasonable value of night, so I can't

Re: AD Authentication?

2008-03-04 Thread Thomas Charron
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In any serious Unix/Windows integration effort of non-trivial size, I would recommend going through the effort to make sure Unix IDs are consistent across all hosts. If you're working in the single user workstation

Re: cron question / process queue

2008-03-04 Thread Michael ODonnell
Just thinking out loud here, but one extremely low-tech way to do it might be to have your daily/weekly/monthly cron jobs create a work queue by depositing disposable copies of the desired scripts into a special directory with names guaranteed to be sequential and unique (like, say,

Re: AD Authentication?

2008-03-04 Thread Kenny Lussier
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Matt Brodeur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 08:38:25AM -0500, Kenny Lussier wrote: If you absolutely can't touch the AD servers you'll have to look at Samba's Winbind. IIRC, you'll want a separate LDAP server to store the SID-UID

Re: AD Authentication?

2008-03-04 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Kenny Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What if I can touch the AD servers? Or, at least, I sit next to the guy that can touch the AD servers? Are there other options? SFU (Services For Unix, free, from Microsoft) aims to make Windows speak Unix protocols to

Re: AD Authentication?

2008-03-04 Thread Ted Roche
Ben Scott wrote: On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Kenny Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What if I can touch the AD servers? Or, at least, I sit next to the guy that can touch the AD servers? Are there other options? SFU (Services For Unix, free, from Microsoft) aims to make Windows

Notes from CentraLUG, 3-March-2008

2008-03-04 Thread Ted Roche
Fourteen people made it to the March meeting of the Central New Hampshire Linux User Group, held as usual on the first Monday of the month at the New Hampshire Technical Institute's Library, Room 146, from 7 to 9 PM. Ed Lawson made a great presentation on Scribus the Open Source desktop publishing