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 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.