[K12OSN] OS X LDAP & Linux Clients

[David Trask]

If you are using the later OS X servers....Panther or more
desirably...Tiger....you can use NFS to mount the /home dirs.   Easy to do
and transparent to the user.

"Support list for opensource software in schools." <k12osn at redhat.com> on
Monday, June 05, 2006 at 12:28 PM +0000 wrote:
>I know this has been discussed here before, but I was curious to know if
>anyone can refer me to some of the archives or possibly some good
>articles on integrating an LDAP directory residing on a MacOS X Server
>with Linux clients (auto mounting home directories is the most important
>part). I am going to tackle this as a project this summer in my District
>and will be working with the District's OS X Admin to facilitate the
>process. The idea is to have our students be able to access their home
>directories residing on the District XServes from my Linux TC labs
>without "manually" mounting the server via a GUI Samba client as they can
>right now.
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>Thanks,
>
>
>Mike Picone
>
>Will Turner: "This is either madness... or brilliance."
>Capt. Jack Sparrow: "It's remarkable how often those two traits
>coincide." 
>
>District Technician - Linux Support
>Computer/Network Technician 
>Gresham-Barlow School District
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David N. Trask
Technology Teacher/Director
Vassalboro Community School
dtrask at vcsvikings.org
(207)923-3100