-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 First I must just say that over the holidays I read (or skimmed) most of the book "Mastering Windows 2000", and learnt quite a bit, mostly that Windows 2000's support for Active Directory makes quite a few important features available, such as automatic software installation (based on membership of an LDAP OU and possible of a group also) for users (ie log in, you should have visio2002, and it is installed, someone else logs in who shouldn't have it, and it is removed) and for machines (on next user login, machines will install any new software assigned to their OU) and many other features (mostly collectively called Group Policy Objects).
(Note that in AD, all computers joined to a domain have an account, with samba domain controllers this is also usually the case, except with the new optional nua - No User Account - sam backends in samba3). I was wondering if there were some applications that would apply to Mandrake. Some examples: 1)urpmi support for ldap, so that on every boot (and via cron?) machines would check which software they: a)Must have b)should not have and automatically install/remove the software. This 2)urpmi support for configuring urpmi sources in ldap See above, assume you have a new application you want to roll out to all desktops, create a new urpmi source which as the app, add the package to list of required packages for the OU containing the machines, and go home. (yes, there is overlap with urpmi --parallel). 3)msec support for ldap, so that security policies can be implemented per OU (including inheritance etc). Comments? Regards, Buchan - -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+GbuirJK6UGDSBKcRAtJ/AJ9DHITBG7fq7yAGn8CmguemWnLVggCghFCI 7o0IlgBgvE84wATRp7MJw08= =wfn6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
