Hi Andy, Not to discourage you, but if you're going to switch from NIS to LDAP, be prepared to spend a lot of time. For a single site with 20 users, the simplicity of NIS might make it a better choice, particularly since you and your co-workers are already familiar with it. > (1) Is fedora-ds the right tool for the job? Perhaps it is using a > sledgehammer to crack a nut. FDS is a great tool, but yeah, it is kind of a sledgehammer for your case. > (3) How do I add the automap? Various websites talk about > "automountInformation:" entry, but where does that come in? It does not > appear as an attribute I can add to a person. You need to add some extra schema. http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Howto:Automount > (4) Does anyone know of a simple walk-through documentation to do this > as I am surely not the first person to try and do this with FDS? Gary Tay has a lot of good notes on NIS-to-LDAP topics here: http://web.singnet.com.sg/~garyttt I don't know of any one-size-fits-all recipes. Good luck! -- George Andy Schofield wrote: > Please excuse the obvious newbie posting: I am struggling to get my > head round fedora-ds and what I am trying to do must be so standard. > > I am trying to set up a simple server for about 20 users that allows > clients running Redhat Enterprise 4 to authenticate over ldap and find > the automounter map which tells them how to automount a users home > space. > > We are moving from a solaris NIS server which from a clients > perspective is trivial to setup: > you just run system-config-authentication > + enable "configure NIS" > + fill in the NIS domain and the NIS server and it just works. > > Running system-config-authentication also has an option to enable > "configure LDAP" where you fill in the LDAP Search Base DN and the LDAP > Server. I would like to create the server that will respond > appropriately. > > So my questions: > > (1) Is fedora-ds the right tool for the job? Perhaps it is using a > sledgehammer to crack a nut. > > (2) I've more or less got the authentication bit working but the > console seems counter intuitive. The opening screen has a tab "Users > and Group" which allows you to search and add users but this, as far as > I can see, as nothing to do with the users that the server will > authenticate. They need to be added way down the tree, > by opening the Directory Server, > choosing the suffix and rightclicking the "People" and adding new. > Is this the correct method of adding users? > (I don't want to import them from the passwd file - there are so few of > them I want to do things by hand). > > (3) How do I add the automap? Various websites talk about > "automountInformation:" entry, but where does that come in? It does not > appear as an attribute I can add to a person. > > (4) Does anyone know of a simple walk-through documentation to do this > as I am surely not the first person to try and do this with FDS? > > Thanks for your help > Andy
