I'm very open to suggestions... I've just about exhausted all the options I can think of... so if anybody has any advice, please let me know.
From what I can gather, you've got 2003 AD doing user management RHEL for a (home) fileserver Clients of all flavors
Have you thoroughly investigated just using nfs and autofs to do home directory mounting and decided you can't use it for one reason or another? What are those reasons? You'd probably have less headache using nfs in a unix client - unix server environment, after all, that's what NFS is good for. There may be some ldap solutions you can use for that. Maybe you'd have to script something to generate an autofs map periodically from AD's LDAP, but it seems like less headache than what you've got going on now. I've done that for Solaris boxes that don't play nice with linux LDAP autofs trees, you can probably glean the data from AD if you put it in right. If I were you, I'd find a way to make NFS work, it's mature, and designed for exactly this. Use samba for user translation between OSs, but don't use smb until you need to traverse OS families for filesharing.
I would suggest you keep to RH's kernel. That's why you paid money for RHEL, to get support. If you do something like jump to another unsupported kernel you may as well go to Fedora (or another free distro). RH backports some current kernel fixes and out-of-branch patches to their kernel to tune it for their purposes. You may even have a pile of 2.6 code in your RHEL 2.4 kernel.
Shannon
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