I cannot see how anyone can recomend not using authentication on any network
at any location. If you have a wireless access point on your "home"
network, or have vpn access or port-forwarded access to any number of access
mechanisms such as ssh, vnc, rdp, etc, or have children or other ignorant
users, or quite simply "any users who are not unix admins", then running
open authentication is certainly not "overkill" and suggesting doing so is
foolish at best, and outright negligent at worst.
struggling with getting LAM installed for 2 days now... but it is
opensource, i really can't complain.
btw2, i assume that if i installed yum centos repos, none of my openfiler
updates will work ? (new to yum). for now, i'm sticking with up2date for
centos install mgmt, and yum to get the of patches.
-=dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mukund" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Chris Bussey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 3:23 AM
Subject: [OF-users] Re: Openfiler Local Authentication Server
Hi Chris
If you are using this for personal purposes, an authentication server
will be overkill. If you don't require username/password authentication,
you can run the shares in guest/public mode which'll permit access to
the shares to any machine on the added networks.
If you do need to use authentication, you can simply install OpenLDAP
along with the front-end at: http://lam.sourceforge.net/ and create
users and groups on it.
Mukund
On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 11:01 +0100, Chris Bussey wrote:
Hi Rafiu and Mukund,
I am a private individual who would like to use the Openfiler at home for
the purpose of serving 2 XP machines, 1 Linux and 1 Mac.
I have installed Openfiler 2.0 beta but find that as I do not have an
authentication server of any kind on my network I cannot use the filer.
Reading through the FAQ's I understand that you have available a
commercial
plugin that will provide a directory server and therefore not require any
external authentication.
Please can you provide details of the director server plugin and its
cost.
Best regards
Chris Bussey
01354 741636 Home
07808 598347 Mobile
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