[Lilug] Multi-Site Suggestions

[Justin Dearing]

If the offices will be always connected via a point to point VPNs then there
should be no need for multi master.
Are the offices going to be disconnected from each other on a regular basis?

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Chris Knadle <Chris.Knadle at coredump.us>wrote:

> On Sunday 08 February 2009, Michael Lee 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?
>
> You'll most likely be needing an LDAP directory, and if you have
> multiple sites to replicate LDAP data, then you'll most likely want
> multi-master replication.  Unfortuantely this is one important
> feature that OpenLDAP (slapd) does not support.  You can find ways of
> living without the feature, but it's a convenient thing if you have
> other administrators at the locations where LDAP servers will be
> deployed that you'd like to allow to add or change entries for their
> sub-organization and have the changes propagate.  There are several
> choices for directory servers that support multi-master replication,
> many of which are commercial and require per-seat licensing.  One of
> the ones that's free is Red Hat Directory Server.  Since you've
> expressed an interest in running Debian, I'll just pass along the
> following link, which explains how to install RHDS on Debian Stable.
>
>      http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Howto:DebianEtch
>
>   -- Chris
>
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>
> Chris Knadle
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