[TriLUG] TriLug classes

[Reid Sayre]

Sounnds to me like this would make a great book.  I may have missed  
more, but there was only one book on Amazon that had anything to do with 
migrating from Windows to Linux, and that was published six years ago, 
and they have to special order it.

Reid Sayre

Rick DeNatale wrote:

> On 5/20/06, Jason Tower <jason at cerient.net> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>
> Perhaps we could structure this as a series of classes, we'd need to
> structure it and find volunteers to teach.
>
> Any offers?
>
>

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