Niki Kovacs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have to install a small network in a school in a nearby village. The
> network will be Linux-only, one server and fifteen desktops. Here's the
> idea.
>
> 1) Authentication should be managed centrally on the server.
>
> 2) User home directories should also be on the server.
>
> 3) Users should all have disk quotas, something like 1 GB per user.
>
> 4) Some shared directories should be read/write for a defined group of
> users (teachers) and read-only for others.
>
> So far, I've only dealt with local authentication. I have a little
> practice in basic setups of Samba and NFS and managed to get these to
> work OK. On the other hand, I've never worked with NIS, LDAP or the likes.
>
> My question is more general, and I don't want to go into technical
> details. According to the KISS principle, which solution would you
> recommend (or explicitly *not* recommend)? A mix of LDAP and Samba? Or
> NIS and NFS? And what's this thing called Directory Server, which
> vaguely sounds like it's the right way to go?
>
> Any suggestions?
You might want to look at ClearOS before tackling this yourself. It is
CentOS-based but comes up with a slick web based administration program and uses
LDAP for authentication out of the box. It uses openldap and I think it is
integrated with samba so you could use windows clients if you wanted. On
something of that scale I don't think you'd have to worry about the performance
or replication differences in openldap or directory server - the administrative
tools you use will be more important.
--
Les Mikesell
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