> I'd really like a solution that is relatively painless to install/ > configure so I can train puppet how to take care of this for me (Still > learning puppet). Failing that I'm looking for a recipe that I can > hand to a junior admin.
In that case, your best solution is probably the MS built-in UNIX services and NIS. Nothing else is as simple and straight-forward. Just read my comments in the email one minute ago ... Also, I'd recommend enabling the services on more than one server. NIS clients perform very well switching from one NIS server to another, in the event one server becomes unavailable. But of course, only if there's more than one server available, and only if you told the clients about it. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
