Re: Multiple Servers tied together

2010-01-14 Thread Roger Heflin
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > >    We're going to split out main server up into 3, possibly more with > backup redundancy.  The basic setup will be 1 server (USER) holding > everyone's physical account, 1 server (MAIL) which holds everyone's mail > spool (INBOXES on

Re: [Fedora] Re: Multiple Servers tied together

2010-01-14 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 07:45 -0700, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > As > for the GFS one, is that an open source project, or a pay-for piece? GFS is open source. However, my understanding is (and hopefully someone will correct me if I am wrong) that in order to use GFS, you have to swallow the whol

Re: [Fedora] Re: Multiple Servers tied together

2010-01-13 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > Thanks. I saw the LDAP project before I sent my e-mail out. I'm > still looking at it to see if it's what I need, or if it's too much. As > for the GFS one, is that an open source project, or a pay-for piece? > That does look like overkill, but at the same time, if it

Re: [Fedora] Re: Multiple Servers tied together

2010-01-13 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Check out these two projects: > > GFS: http://www.redhat.com/gfs/ > LDAP: http://directory.fedoraproject.org/ > > Both are available in Fedora. > Thanks. I saw the LDAP project before I sent my e-mail out. I'm still looking at it to see if it's what I need, or

Re: Multiple Servers tied together

2010-01-12 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > hat's the best approach to this? Switch to something other than > NIS+? LDAP maybe (I know zip of LDAP, so that may be a stumbling > block.) Another way to link the machines? Anything? Check out these two projects: GFS: http://www.redhat.com/gfs/ LDAP: http://direc

Multiple Servers tied together

2010-01-12 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
We're going to split out main server up into 3, possibly more with backup redundancy. The basic setup will be 1 server (USER) holding everyone's physical account, 1 server (MAIL) which holds everyone's mail spool (INBOXES only), and 1 server (WEB) that will hold everyone's web space. A u