[K12OSN] Ubuntu thoughts...

[Dean Mumby]

Les Mikesell wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 10:08, richard ingalls wrote:
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>>I think I'm going to go for it with Ubuntu.  I LOVE
>>the idea of only needing ONE CD to install from! 
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>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. 
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>>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!
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>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.
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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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