[K12OSN] mac OS X and win2003 and LTSP integration

Sat Aug 27 05:05:18 UTC 2005

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.

--TP
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