all, another option might be to start with a "basic everything server" (bes) with file-based authentication, linux and windows clients and users, and some file/printer sharing. i've never gotten this completely working to my satisfaction and would love to hear some other perspectives. i really believe that this simple example is the core of small business services.
after that i think that it would be interesting to increase the complexity to ldap on top of pam, etc, the "mostly everything server" (mes?). my $.02, stan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason Tower Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2006 1:17 PM To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list Subject: Re: [TriLUG] TriLug classes i've set this up for several clients. the base is to use samba and ldap with the smbldap-tools to tie them together. the tools are used to populate and maintain the user definitions - instead of 'useradd' you run 'smbldap-useradd', instead of 'passwd' you run 'smbldap-passwd' and so on. once the ldap db is populated, you can set up samba to lookup everything in ldap, do roaming profiles, all that crap. you can also configure pam to use ldap so *nix machines can auth against it. combined with mounting /home via nfs, it works very well when dealing with multiple servers. and of course you can set up other services like postfix, courier, apache, etc to use ldap auth (or pam). at one client i even have an openvpn server authenticating against pam, which in turn points to ldap. the thing is, it's not trivial to set up, and even a two hour class would barely scratch the surface. but if you're willing invest the time to learn the ins and outs of the various pieces it works extremely well. jason Greg Brown wrote: > I second that. The "everything server" running Linux in the small > business. Authentication, file sharing, etc, etc, etc. > > On 5/20/06, Carl Crider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> I would love this one. >> >> -Carl >> >> >> On 5/20/06, Jim Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> > How about having a class on a drop in replacement for Microsoft >> > Small Business Server? Exploris has excellent facilities. >> > >> > Regards, >> > >> > Jim >> -- >> TriLUG mailing list : >> http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug >> TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ >> TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ >> -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
