[Lilug] Multi-Site Suggestions

[Justin Dearing]

Theres remote folder sync in windows. You'll probably haveto fake with rsync
for other clients.

If everyones documents are all office documents a sharepoint workalike (or
just plan webdav svn mounted as a rontpage folder) will do just fine. For
sourcecode just use svn normally.

Also, I'd reccomend jabber over IRC, unless everyone there is IRC savvy. IRC
has a lot of features, but most people "just understand" jabber.

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 12:17 AM, Michael Lee <mlee456 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Justin,
> I knew that LDAP and SAMBA had to be in there somewhere.  I had been caught
> up in the possible use of "rsync" for data directories, but I think I'll do
> as you say and break it out into separate problems.  I'll start with a
> single server, solve some connectivity issues, then branch out to other
> offices later.
>
> Several users change location within the work week so getting the users to
> keep their mail and files with them is a requirement.  I can't see putting
> all that traffic over the VPN's.
>
> Again Thanks much,
>
> Will keep everyone updated.
>
> -- Michael
>
> On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Justin Dearing <zippy1981 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 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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