On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 13:11 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
Rob Kampen wrote:
I've been watching the discussion and read the RHEL docs about IPA and thought "At Last" something that brings together all the bits for the little guy. Now it appears the RH is going to drop the ball. I have tried OpenLDAP and currently have a CentOS-DS running but am missing the bits that glue it all together. The actual core services (LDAP (either variant) Kerberos PAM samba etc) are simple enough to install on CentOS but the stuff that makes it "just work" is very difficult for me to get my head around and thus I've never actually got a setup working well enough to risk on my clients.
I have started with SME: http://wiki.contribs.org/Main_Page
This is a good NT Domain + equiv on Centos 4.7 and they have Centos 5.2 (I hope now 5.3) in beta.
I have not looked enough into their roadmap to see what is being done with LDAP...
Another effort on Fedora is Amahi.org. This is more a home product with a WorkGroup orientation. The inclusion of home apps like streaming music makes it very attractive.
SME is a well organized effort, originally back? by Mitel. Amahi started as a one-man effort (though the one man behind it has impressive credentials) and has developed a 'plugin' community.
Craig well knows the efforts of a couple of k12 guys to get some SAMBA integration together (http://majen.net/smbldap/). This seems to have stagnated.
I am hoping that SME continues to evolve. Their VoIP version is the perfect place to get serious with LDAP.
---- indeed, I do know about the k12ltsp efforts and the result was somewhat predictable.
All of the networks that I have setup and maintain use LDAP for authentication (Linux/Macintosh/Windows) and use a Samba PDC/BDC, DNS, DHCP, etc. and in fact, use the same users $HOME directory regardless of which OS they log into. I have also adapted automounts for Linux & Macintosh users into LDAP but Windows users mount shares via login scripts. I have also been using WPKG for automatic software installation on Windows systems.
I don't have much interest in SME myself. FreeIPA seemed to have the whole bundle.
Craig