[K12OSN] k12ltsp and ldap

[Petre Scheie]

O'Reilly's 'LDAP System Administration' has a section on using LDAP for Samba 
authentication.  The book is pretty good, although I haven't used the Samba 
section.  If you go to www.oreilly.com you can use their Safari service to look 
at the book.  You have to sign up for the 14-day free trial to see the pages 
(pp165-172 in my copy) but that could allow you to judge if the book will tell 
you what you want to know.

Petre

Trond Mæhlum wrote:
> Can someone help me get started with ldap on k12ltsp? I see from some 
> older postings that it's possible. I want to use webmin for creating 
> users, and have one ldap server for users and /home. It looks like 
> openldap is installed, but when I try to open it through webmin I get an 
> error that the server is not running.
>  
> I have never done this before, so a nice little howto would be nice. Or 
> is perhaps NIS auth. and NFS export of /home just as good? If so... I 
> would like a how to on this as well. I tried the nis approach, but 
> couldn't get it right. Something tells me that ldap is the way to go, 
> but I'm not sure.
>  
> To sum up... Could any of you be so kind as to guide me through it, or 
> perhaps link to a good how to...?
>  
> Regards
>  
> Trond Mæhlum
>