On 26/09/11 14:50, Alan Bell wrote:
On 26/09/11 14:46, Matthew Daubney wrote:
Full LDAP integration (not just auth), complete with some kind of
"workgroup manager"-esque app to control permissions/access on groups
of machines and allow things like remote desktop as policy. Seems to
be one of the major things that would stop SME take up of Ubuntu.
(i.e. I see it on practically every mac/windows network when I go on
site visits to SME type companies)
-Matt Daubney
ooh yes I would like that too. In fact what I would really like is you
start up Ubuntu desktop and the first thing it says is "where is my
Ubuntu server?" and then it all just works, pulling accounts from the
server, setting up email, proxy, policies, software packages etc. At
the moment Ubuntu server and Ubuntu desktop are not very tightly related.
Alan.
Funnily enough I've been thinking about how I would configure that
manually for a home office server. I haven't done anything yet but my
thoughts in terms of requirements were:
* Centralised login (LDAP + Kerberos?) so that you can login to your
account from any machine;
* Home folder synchronisation so that a copy of each user's home
folder is always kept on the server (where it's easier to back-up) with
possibility to optionally exclude some sub-folders on a per-machine,
per-machine-group, per-user or per-user-group basis (e.g. don't sync the
whole photo collection on the EeePC or exclude the project folders for
the developer group as it's already under source control);
* Support for proper shared folders (whether it's WebDAV, Samba or
anything else) that can be set up for everybody or a specific user group;
* Everything that Alan said above with possibility to have settings
specific per machine, machine group, user or user group;
* Caching on the individual desktop so that it's completely
transparent for laptop users.
Having said this, it feels a lot bigger than anything that can be done
in a single release. It wouldn't harm to get started though.
Cheers,
Bruno
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