[K12OSN] Ubuntu thoughts...
Dean Mumby
dean at mumby.co.za
Tue Aug 23 21:11:07 UTC 2005
Les Mikesell wrote:
>On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 10:08, richard ingalls wrote:
>
>
>>I think I'm going to go for it with Ubuntu. I LOVE
>>the idea of only needing ONE CD to install from!
>>
>>
>
>You do know that you really only have to burn the first
>CD or make a USB boot image for k12ltsp (fedora/RH/centos)
>don't you? If you download the iso images to an
>NFS exported directory all you have to do is boot the
>first CD with 'linux askmethod', pick NFS as the install
>method, and point it to your NFS location.
>
>
>
>>Lastly, squidguard and dansguardian REALLY need to
>>work and work well (for the CIPA requirements). In my
>>opinion this is reason enough to stay with Fedora (if
>>it won't work well in Ubuntu). In Fedora, squidguard
>>JUST WORKS! I love it!
>>
>>
>
>If someone is looking for a project, something that would
>be a real killer combination would be to make the new SME
>server (based on Centos4) work alongside k12ltsp for network
>server functions (squid/email/web/ftp, etc) and to provide
>home directories because it is so easy to install and manage.
>The tricky part would be getting everything to use the
>same network authentication method.
>
>
>
Hi Les
It seems we are always crusading for the same thing (lol)
I just installed the first beta of smeserver7 and I have to say its
looking good. I also have the centos version of k12ltsp and was able to
get that box authenticating against the samba domain on the smeserver
with no hassle at all. the only snag at this point is for some reason
the k12ltsp box is not resolving the primary group of the users. I am
creating the user home dirs locally using pam_mkhomedir , I think just
mapping the home dir on the smeserver to a dir on k12ltsp would be
sufficient. So essentially with all authentication against the
smeserver we are almost there.
I was wondering though how you handle having a server off-line ? Some
sort of caching of user info so as to prevent the server (k12ltsp)
becoming unusable ?
Regards
Dean
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