[TriLUG] TriLug classes

[Jason Tower]

i've set this up for several clients.  the base is to use samba and ldap 
with the smbldap-tools to tie them together.  the tools are used to 
populate and maintain the user definitions - instead of 'useradd' you 
run 'smbldap-useradd', instead of 'passwd' you run 'smbldap-passwd' and 
so on.  once the ldap db is populated, you can set up samba to lookup 
everything in ldap, do roaming profiles, all that crap.  you can also 
configure pam to use ldap so *nix machines can auth against it. 
combined with mounting /home via nfs, it works very well when dealing 
with multiple servers.  and of course you can set up other services like 
postfix, courier, apache, etc to use ldap auth (or pam).  at one client 
i even have an openvpn server authenticating against pam, which in turn 
points to ldap.

the thing is, it's not trivial to set up, and even a two hour class 
would barely scratch the surface.  but if you're willing invest the time 
to learn the ins and outs of the various pieces it works extremely well.

jason

Greg Brown wrote:
> I second that.  The "everything server" running Linux in the small
> business.  Authentication, file sharing, etc, etc, etc.
> 
> On 5/20/06, Carl Crider <c.crider at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>> I would love this one.
>>
>> -Carl
>>
>>
>> On 5/20/06, Jim Ray <jim at neuse.net> wrote:
>> >
>> > How about having a class on a drop in replacement for Microsoft Small
>> > Business Server?  Exploris has excellent facilities.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > Jim
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