For those who are new or forget - I have a RHEL 5 Server and a few dualboot XP w/SP2 and CentOS 5 systems. The Linux machines were installed straight of CD/DVD, no patches.
I was initially going to try a single sign-on to the RH 5 box via LDAP, but RH says it simply isn't possible and I don't know my way around LDAP other than it is a database and exists.
So, option 2 is to simply have the RH 5 Server act as a Windows PDC via Samba and use NIS to enable users to log in, all the while, in either situation, having the RH 5 box serve out the user's central home directory - mounted as a drive letter under Windows, or exported under Linux.
I've spent much of last week and much of today [trying to learn] LDAP, and today, finally deciding to dump that, but proceeding with Samba as a PDC.
For Samba as a PDC - what is the best way to have Win XP Pro w/SP2 successfully authenticate to Samba as a domain controller with encyrpted passwords? And, to have Samba establish the user's home directory as a mapped drive? I've used a barrage of web sites showing various smb.conf confing files but can't yet get my test XP machine to authenticate to the domain I set in my smb.conf file.
For NIS - what is the best way to permit the user to log into their account, created on RH 5 server, and have their home directory exported to their workstation?
I presume there will be no problem with users simultaneously logging into multiple workstations, be it Linux or Windows?
I only bother the list because I have scoured so many web sites, some with a variety of options, I believe I'll get the best answer here.
Thanks.
Scott
Thinking of using CentOS as a host for a Linux Appliance.
I am used to building Embedded Linux Systems and there the approach is to create the a directory on the development machine and "get files "that are to be on the target machine into that directory. This usually being termed as building the root file system. Also in the embedded systems approach we build from source and usually during the configure steps of package we can specify where the end binaries/libraries need to be copies.
So for Cent OS thinking of using a similar approach with the difference that I don't want to build all packages from source.
1)Use the binrary rpms and install to a directory on a development machine using the rpm --prefix option. Not sure yet how to specify to create and use an rpm database on the development machine as opposed to a database on the development machine.
Is this really a sensible approach or just using something like Kickstart?
2) There might be some packages that I want to build from source. Then I am thinking I would need the exact compiler used to compile the binary rpms. How would I obtain the compiler and environment used to build the CentOS binary rpms?
Thx, -Venkat
What we do is a rpm -r /mnt/targetdeviceroot/ ....
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-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Venkat Subbiah Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 20:19 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] using centos for linux appliance
Thinking of using CentOS as a host for a Linux Appliance.
I am used to building Embedded Linux Systems and there the approach is to create the a directory on the development machine and "get files "that are to be on the target machine into that directory. This usually being termed as building the root file system. Also in the embedded systems approach we build from source and usually during the configure steps of package we can specify where the end binaries/libraries need to be copies.
So for Cent OS thinking of using a similar approach with the difference that I don't want to build all packages from source.
1)Use the binrary rpms and install to a directory on a development machine using the rpm --prefix option. Not sure yet how to specify to create and use an rpm database on the development machine as opposed to a database on the development machine.
Is this really a sensible approach or just using something like Kickstart?
- There might be some packages that I want to build from
source. Then I am thinking I would need the exact compiler used to compile the binary rpms. How would I obtain the compiler and environment used to build the CentOS binary rpms?
Thx, -Venkat
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On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 17:18 -0700, Venkat Subbiah wrote:
Thinking of using CentOS as a host for a Linux Appliance.
Please also think about starting a thread with a new message, not by replying to an existing one an hijacking the original thread ("CentOS/RH 5 Samba as PDC+NIS w/o LDAP?" in this case). Plays havoc with threaded mail-readers.
May want to check out the VMware CentOS appliances as examples: http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/820 http://www.thoughtpolice.co.uk/vmware/
I am used to building Embedded Linux Systems and there the approach is to create the a directory on the development machine and "get files "that are to be on the target machine into that directory. This usually being termed as building the root file system. Also in the embedded systems approach we build from source and usually during the configure steps of package we can specify where the end binaries/libraries need to be copies.
So for Cent OS thinking of using a similar approach with the difference that I don't want to build all packages from source.
1)Use the binrary rpms and install to a directory on a development machine using the rpm --prefix option. Not sure yet how to specify to create and use an rpm database on the development machine as opposed to a database on the development machine.
Is this really a sensible approach or just using something like Kickstart?
I'd consider building images in a VMware environment, possibly with kickstart as a good proving ground for the concept.
- There might be some packages that I want to build from source. Then I
am thinking I would need the exact compiler used to compile the binary rpms. How would I obtain the compiler and environment used to build the CentOS binary rpms?
CentOS is self-hosting and has all the tools required to build RPMS.
See:
http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/YumAndRPM "Get set up for rebuilding packages while not being root"
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/CreateLocalRepos
Phil
Thinking of using CentOS as a host for a Linux Appliance.
1)Use the binrary rpms and install to a directory on a development machine using the rpm --prefix option. Not sure yet how to specify to create and use an rpm database on the development machine as opposed to a database on the development machine.
I use rpmstrap (http://rpmstrap.pimpscript.net/) to do this, works pretty well. (hrm, weird, I just noticed that the maintainer abandoned the project :O
Rpmstrap can be a little finnicky to get going at first, but after a little bit, it works great.
Is this really a sensible approach or just using something like Kickstart?
- There might be some packages that I want to build from
source. Then I am thinking I would need the exact compiler used to compile the binary rpms. How would I obtain the compiler and environment used to build the CentOS binary rpms?
Any compiler will do from what I have seen, for building your own .rpm's, or for re-building/modifying centOS's .rpm's.
Check out Samba by Example on the samba site.
Lots of examples there and I pulled one of my configs from there.
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