[K12OSN] mac OS X and win2003 and LTSP integration

[Joe Guenther]

The LTSP server is installed as a single NIC.  Although at the start 
there will only be one lab on terminals, and that could be theoretically 
separated onto a distinct vlan within the network, there will eventually 
be terminals scattered throughout the classrooms all over the school. 
That would be difficult to configure as there are switches from various 
vendors throughout the school.

I had not thought of the separate vlan option to segregate the LTSP from 
the rest of the LAN ... might be an option if the Mac OS X dhcp cannot 
be configured to pass on the option root-path

thanks for the suggestion
Joe


Terrell Prudé, Jr. wrote:

> Joe Guenther wrote:
>
>> I have a problem ... yes we only ask when we have problems it seems.
>>
>> I have a school that currently has a Macintosh OS X server as the 
>> student file server (Samba) and Mac netboot.  It also authenticates 
>> mac iBook, etc via Open Directory.  Now the school has been forced to 
>> make big changes ... the former tech has left, the school is half 
>> ready for the start of school and a new Windows 2003 server is being 
>> brought it to replace the Mac OS X server.  At any rate I have been 
>> asked to integrate a new LTSP lab into the whole scheme of things.
>>
>> The problem being - currently DHCP is being served by the Mac OS X 
>> server. If we turn that off half our school users on Macs cannot 
>> login to the Open Directory.  DHCP also seems to serve certain LDAP 
>> parameters to the mac clients.  IF the mac serves DHCP, the LTSP 
>> terminals will not boot!!  problem ...
>>
>> is there a solution to tweak the Mac OS X server to serve the 
>> appropriate bits of info to the LTSP clients? The GUI leaves very few 
>> DHCP server options ... where is there/is there a test conf file to 
>> tweak or hack?
>>
>> is there a way of serving the mac tidbits from the Linux server?
>>
>> It seems we have to have the mac server around long enough to get the 
>> mac authentication working on Win2003 server, so until then the two 
>> have to co-exist _peacefully_ in the same rack.
>>
>> can anyone help point me in the right direction?  I am currently as I 
>> write this working on the LTSP authentication to Active Directory.  I 
>> am running 4.2.1EL and following the instructions from  
>> http://enterprise.linux.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/09/2318244  I assume 
>> that the NSS_LDAP package is already updated as this article refers 
>> to ver 207 on Fedors core 1.  I notice mine is 226.6.  Thus I will 
>> run the Microsoft  Services for Unix 3.5 and the authconfig as per 
>> the article and see what happens.  But the DHCP issue is not resolved.
>
>
>
> A default installation of K12LTSP has its own DHCP server that serves 
> only its "private" segment hanging off of eth0.  eth1 then faces the 
> school LAN.  Are you running a different setup?  Tell us more about 
> your network--LAN/VLAN segments, IP subnets, etc.
>
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