[K12OSN] smb, active directory,home dir

Mark Gumprecht gumprechtm at msln.net
Mon Mar 21 16:02:20 UTC 2005



Burroughs, Henry wrote:

>Mark,
>
>I'm moving in that direction too.  AD speaks ldap, so you could export information into LDIF format. 
>
Thanks for that info, export should speed conversion. I played with 
export before.. as a text file. But that was a while ago.

> I've added a custom schema to my AD so I have unix attributes... so I currently do LDAP/kerberos authentication against AD (which means I want to export all my unix info from AD, and shove it into openLdap so I don't have to re-permission everything).
>
>Do you use exchange?  I unfortunately do, and I either will move to open-xchange, SUSE open-exchange, 
>
I do not use exchange and currently do not maintain a mail server. I 
have wanted to checkout open groupware, but have not gotten there yet.
I had a primary domain controller crash a few months back and it wasn't 
pretty. I had 3 valid backups, but the junction points would not restore 
in the AD. I now maintain a current system state BU with the native BU 
utility which will restore properly. I had to start all over and recover 
all the files (permissions) by hand. I do not care to redo that again.

>Groupwise, or ::shudders:: keep exchange and  create a small AD domain that does a NT domain trust of the samba domain (it has been done before, I've seen some postings on the Net somewhere).
>
>You will have to reset all the passords, as I know of no way to retrieve them from the abyss of AD.
>
>Henry
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From:	Mark Gumprecht [mailto:gumprechtm at msln.net]
>Sent:	Thu 3/17/2005 8:09 AM
>To:	Support list for opensource software in schools.
>Cc:	
>Subject:	[K12OSN] smb, active directory,home dir
>Does anyone have or know of a writeup on how to get away from AD to 
>samba/ldap and how to direct a K12LTSP to a home/roaming profiles 
>server. The more I learn about AD, The more I lose sleep.
>Mark
>
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Mark Gumprecht
Data Systems Specialist
MSAD3
Unity, ME
gumprechtm at msln.net




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