[K12OSN] Ubuntu thoughts...

[Les Mikesell]

On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 12:09, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> I agree. I found this quote
> 
> "A central file server enabling seamless information exchange among
> Windows, Macintosh and Unix machines."
> 
> on this page
> 
>  http://contribs.org/modules/phpwiki/index.php/Features%20and%20Benefits
> 
> Looks nice.

The problem is that it installs as sort of a self-contained appliance
and doesn't integrate that well with other servers in terms of DNS
or network user authentication.  But, the new version is mostly
the same underneath as the centos4 based k12ltsp so it should be
a matter of tweaking the perl script/template-driven config management
a little (or maybe a lot...).

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    les at futuresource.com