RHEL PDC

[Karl Pearson]

On Mon, June 15, 2009 12:33 pm, Rick Stevens wrote:
> Lupo, Kelly wrote:
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com
>>> [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Waldher,
>>> Travis R
>>> Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 9:59 AM
>>> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
>>> Subject: RE: RHEL PDC
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-
>>>> list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Lupo, Kelly
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 8:49 PM
>>>> To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com
>>>> Subject: RHEL PDC
>>>>
>>>> Are there any Liux-newb-friendly guides for setting up a primary
>>>> domain controller using RHEL of any version (or any RH-based distro
>>>> -
>>>> at this point I'll take what I can get), beginning from the install
>>>> of
>>>> the OS, and going all the way through to configuring Samba, LDAP,
>>>> etc?
>>>> There are quite a few just for setting up Samba and such for a
>>>> server
>>>> with Linux already on it, but I was looking more for something that
>>>> began at the beginning; which packages need to be selected for
>>>> install and such.
>>>> (Hopefully nipping any dependency issues before they crop up...)
>>>>
>>>> Any advice is greatly appreciated!
>>>>
>>> I am attempting to get LDAP setup now and went for the GUI approach.
>>>
>>> I'll let you know when I get this working.  The LDAP part is
>>> supposedly working, but I
>>> was going for a GUI to manage LDAP (command line LDAP is cumbersome)
>>> and landed in a
>>> GLIB/GTK compiling nightmare.  Seems you can't compile GTK without
>>> first upgrading
>>> GTK, which means compiling GTK, which I can't because.... My desk has
>>> a forehead sized
>>> dent in it now.
>>>
>>
>> Lol, I don't envy you in that one.  Last time I had that type of
>> situation, I gave up and started over; please let me know if you fix
>> it a different way, though!
>>
>> The only thing I can think of, would be to boot a liveCD of the same
>> distro, compile it there, transfer to USB drive, and hope it worked on
>> the main one...  I'm not too sure how effective that would be
>> though...
>
> If you need an LDAP GUI client, I'd recommend GQ.  Webmin also has
> reasonable LDAP tools, both as a client and to manage the server.

Speaking of Webmin; when was it removed from the fedora repos? Or am I
dreaming and it wasn't ever in fedora and I'm just remembering it being
in Redhat v8, which was the last 'redhat' I used on my servers?

Karl

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