[Lilug] Multi-Site Suggestions

[Justin Dearing]

MIcheal,

You've got a metric ton of problems to solve here. Break it out into
separate problems.


   1. Get same 3 working with LDAP. read this doc:
   http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/
   Note: I have not used this doc in a while but I own the dead tree version
   and the online version was much better than the original dead tree version
   even 4 years ago.
   2. Setup roaming profiles on a local windows box.
   3. Move your vpn's authentication over to the ldap server.
   4. If you have remote machines that will never be on the local network I
   don't know how you will solve the chicken and egg problem of getting that
   users AD credentials cached locally. Unless you give them a hardware router
   for vpning in or find wondows vpn software that runs as a service.
   5. Once you have all this working on windows machines, do the same for
   your mac and linux clients.
   6. Now solve the remove file mounting via login scripts and automount

I've not used samba 4 so I can't comment on how ready it is.

Regards,

Justin Dearing

On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Michael Lee <mlee456 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a situation where I have users in several different locations.
>  Currently they are all VPN'ed to the main office so they can access an
> Oracle Server using Red Hat that is central to their operation.  I really
> don't have access to the Oracle Server and really don't want to touch it if
> I can help it.
> All the desktops are those "other OS's"
>
> My problem is that I have to get all these desktops on some shared/private
> storage directories with roaming profiles, login scripts and central
> authentication with mixed clients ( Windows, Mac OS ).
>
> I have been tossing around a single server accessible via the VPN vs.
> multiple servers at each location that sync user directories, shared folders
> and maybe ldap tables, I'd love to run Postfix, Samba, Squid, and all the
> other linux goodies.  I was even thinking of a private IRC so persons in the
> separate offices can "chat via the channel"
>
> I figured I'd toss it up to the group for ideas.
>
> So far I've looked into Debian, Ubuntu, ClarkConnect, SLES, back to Debian.
>  I'm about to load up a server and go back to Ubuntu again so I can take a
> look at ebox as a management tool.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> P.S. Big up to kupo who spotted me on the irc.
>
> Thanks in advance for any and all ideas
>
> Mike Lee
>
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