Re: slightly-OT: centralized user management

2005-07-30 Thread Darryl Clarke
On 7/29/05, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > > I currently have a small home network (1 server, 1 workstation, 1 > laptop) with only two users. What I would like to do is to setup some > sort of centralized user authentication mechanism (NIS, LDAP, whatever) > with hom

Re: FW: slightly-OT: centralized user management

2005-07-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 11:10:04AM -0500, Jason Clinton wrote: > On Saturday 30 July 2005 10:59, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > Cool. Would you consider posting it so I have a starting point? No > > sense reinventing the wheel :-) > > Unfortunately, the script is owned by my employer so I can't s

Re: FW: slightly-OT: centralized user management

2005-07-30 Thread Jason Clinton
On Saturday 30 July 2005 10:59, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Cool. Would you consider posting it so I have a starting point? No > sense reinventing the wheel :-) Unfortunately, the script is owned by my employer so I can't share it. But all I did was set up OpenLDAP, use the Official Samba HOWTO

Re: FW: slightly-OT: centralized user management

2005-07-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 10:58:22AM -0500, Jason Clinton wrote: > On Saturday 30 July 2005 09:15, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > Right. I am looking for something more cross platform. At least to > > cover Windows and Linux and maybe Mac OS X. I am not familiar with > > Windows networking, so I do

Re: FW: slightly-OT: centralized user management

2005-07-30 Thread Jason Clinton
On Saturday 30 July 2005 09:15, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Right. I am looking for something more cross platform. At least to > cover Windows and Linux and maybe Mac OS X. I am not familiar with > Windows networking, so I don't know what all the correct terminology is. > I just recall that at o

Re: FW: slightly-OT: centralized user management

2005-07-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 08:57:12PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > But there was nothing about getting a "roaming profile" type of setup. > > Roaming Profiles and Offline Folders are different Windows features. You need > domain networking and Windows Server (2003,

FW: slightly-OT: centralized user management

2005-07-29 Thread David Christensen
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > But there was nothing about getting a "roaming profile" type of setup. Roaming Profiles and Offline Folders are different Windows features. You need domain networking and Windows Server (2003, maybe 2k) to enable the former, but only Workgroup networking and a workstat

Re: slightly-OT: centralized user management

2005-07-29 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 09:57:17PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > Two things come to mind, neither of which I've used (or used enough) > to judge their viability. > > (1) rsync > which I'm told is a way of keeping two file systems in sync with one another > I currently make heavy use of rsync.

Re: slightly-OT: centralized user management

2005-07-29 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 02:35:56AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > > Not long after I started getting to grips with debian, I asked a similar > question and a guy call Todd Pytel sent me a lot of info and suggestions > for solutions (some of it off-list). You should be able to find the > thread by

Re: slightly-OT: centralized user management

2005-07-29 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 08:01:28PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Greetings, > > I currently have a small home network (1 server, 1 workstation, 1 > laptop) with only two users. What I would like to do is to setup some > sort of centralized user authentication mechanism (NIS, LDAP, whatever)

Re: slightly-OT: centralized user management

2005-07-29 Thread Clive Menzies
On (29/07/05 20:01), Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > I currently have a small home network (1 server, 1 workstation, 1 > laptop) with only two users. What I would like to do is to setup some > sort of centralized user authentication mechanism (NIS, LDAP, whatever) > with home directories mounted from

slightly-OT: centralized user management

2005-07-29 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Greetings, I currently have a small home network (1 server, 1 workstation, 1 laptop) with only two users. What I would like to do is to setup some sort of centralized user authentication mechanism (NIS, LDAP, whatever) with home directories mounted from the server. This is primarily since I will