Hi,
If you're running Mac OS X Server on your G4 servers, you'd probably be best to use LDAP for authentication, if I'm not mistaken. I've set up LDAP authentication on Linux many a time, so if you need help feel free to contact me (or this list, of course!).
Chris
Phill wrote:
Kevin Philp wrote:
I guess the ultimate would be setting up your computers as 30 terminal servers without hardrives (www.ltsp.org).I doubt we'd have the resources to be able to pull a thin-client model off :P, but it's a valid suggestion.
What I do on my network is have each machine setup with enough stuff to get it running and talking to the network and then bring in the /opt, /usr/local and /home stuff via NFS. You don't need /usr/portage for booting so why not import that as well? Its a lot easier than dowloading via ftp.How do you adjust for patching? I.e., openoffice-1.1.3 vs 1.1.4 would probably change all of the symlinks in, say, the links on user's desktops to the programs - or any other folder accessed by libraries and the ilk. How do you go about updating, say, X (i.e. changes in /etc/ and so on)?
However, we don't have enough x86 hardware to justify a central server like that - although I can see it pretty much eliminating a lot of complications. Cool stuff you've got there.
A quick google brought me up what I think you were talking about.Secondly use NIS for central administration of users and groups.
Both of these can be administered quite nicely using webmin.
And it seems to be the fixin' of our integration woes - we run about 80 or so iMacs running OS 9.2 controlled centraly via an OS 10.3 dual G4 server. In a perfect world, you'd have people login directly to that machine but in the lack of that ability (apparently one can only share a directly either over NFS (as far as we can tell incompatible with our current system for the iMacs) or AppleTalk, meaning we need to do a little man page looking before being able to pull it off), sharing the same user accounts and passwords sounds just about right.
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