[K12OSN] Samba/LDAP and the near future
David Trask
dtrask at vcs.u52.k12.me.us
Mon Mar 8 18:28:01 UTC 2004
Eric and all,
I'm getting prepared for this summer's implementation of Samba/LDAP plus I
have a bunch of folks who want me to teach them how to do it. My set up
works fine, but it's fairly simple....not that I want more complex, but
others may. First of all, where are your latest Samba/LDAP files and have
you tested them with Fedora? Second....have you or do you have Samba/LDAP
set up in such a way that you have a master and many slaves? Example:
Let's say a school district has 4 schools....and they're geographically
seperated by a few miles or so....connected by T1. Is it possible to
essentially have one "district-wide" domain that can be accessed locally
or via VPN from any of the 4 buildings? Maybe in that Master-Slave mode?
Say you had a staff member that works between two schools....how could you
make the same desktop and so forth accessible from either school for that
person without necessarily retreiving the "profile" over a T1. Could we
have a master server that all the local slaves would sync to and thus
propagate specified users to the other slaves? (just dreaming....seeing
flaws in my proposals already) ;-)
I need to get my mind around the groups and so forth in Samba/LDAP....I
need to refine my own system some more....right now I have staff...and
users....and that's it. Also...what do you use to import users in bulk to
the system? I use a script that Barry Smoke gave to me and it works
fine....do you simply create the users with something like createusers and
then convert them? Or what? I'd like to find a simpler way to do
this.....createusers works great....it'd be cool if you could simply
create the users as you normally would and then somehow convert them into
"LDAP" users. Arrggghhh! I simply don't understand the whole LDAP thing
well enough. Time to dive in and teach myself.
David N. Trask
Technology Teacher/Coordinator
Vassalboro Community School
dtrask at vcs.u52.k12.me.us
(207)923-3100
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