[Novalug] Linux as a server for an office?

[Jay Hart]

The NAS setup should be easy, you can go download FreeNAS and install it, and
have a shared drive across all of your platforms.  And it does RAID.

FreeNAS works great on my Linux, W2K, and OpenBSD boxes.

Jay

> Agreed.  I'd like to have something like this at home, where my wife and I run
> a mixed bag of systems.  Between us we have Linux (PPC and x86), OS X
> (again, PPC and x86), and XP.  Get all this tied to a NAS setup.....
>
>
> Rob
>
>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: "Jay Hart" <jhart at kevla.org>
>> I think this would be a great topic at a meeting.  Basically where peices
>> are
>> invloved, and some basic points to consider, if you have it working by then,
>> that would be a bonus.
>>
>> > I was researching the same thing for my heterogeneous network at home.
>> >
>> > For built-in windows authentication, you might want a kerberos server. See
>> >
>> http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/a606a6cd-0d09-4d8e-a709-e
>> a4f93608b5f1033.mspx?mfr=true
>> >
>> > What's nice about that approach is that the kerberos technology is
>> built-in to
>> > Windows and would be supported, patched, etc.
>> >
>> > You *can* use LDAP to authenticate your windows user, but that requires
>> what
>> > is called a different GINA. Google it to learn more.
>> >
>> > There is also an O'Reilly book, "Windows in a Linux World".
>> >
>> http://books.google.com/books?id=NxMeJaLZAHwC&dq=linux+in+a+windows+world&pg=PP1
>> &ots=ySsTmRqzfK&sig=L9VGgg2-F53ZDc0BUeg7nnAOyUA&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum
>> =1&ct=result
>> >
>> > This book has some cool stuff for assisting with what you are trying to
>> do.
>> >
>> > Overall, I think a good strategy is to implement OpenLDAP as the user
>> store
>> > (analogous to Active Directory store), and also implement Kerberos server
>> for
>> > encrypted authentication.
>> >
>> > There are some how-to's on how to do the combination on the internet. I
>> > haven't yet implemented this, but this has been where my research has led
>> me.
>> >
>> > Good luck,
>> >   Brandon
>> >
>> >
>> > --- On Fri, 7/18/08, Igor Birman <igor_birman at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> From: Igor Birman <igor_birman at yahoo.com>
>> >> Subject: [Novalug] Linux as a server for an office?
>> >> To: novalug at calypso.tux.org
>> >> Date: Friday, July 18, 2008, 10:06 AM
>> >> I have an opportunity to set up a new server for an office
>> >> running Linux.  I want the same features as Windows server
>> >> provides - single signon, ability to change password,
>> >> access to samba shares without having to log in again, and
>> >> access via VPN.
>> >>
>> >> Do I need OpenLDAP for this?  Every guide to it seems very
>> >> complex - is there a quick and easy way to use it?  Do some
>> >> commercial Linux distributions have this out of the box?  I
>> >> found this link:
>> >> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LDAP-Samba_PDC_(for_Linux_and_Windows)
>> >> with a big disclaimer at the top.
>> >>
>> >> Should I just use Samba as a PDC?  I see many articles
>> >> about this from 2001 and 2002, but nothing recent.
>> >>
>> >> It looks like I can do this with OpenLDAP, but it looks
>> >> very complicated.  Is there any easy way to provide these
>> >> services for Windows machines, or should I be looking at
>> >> Windows Server?
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
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