Re: [CentOS] Using CentOS 5 as server; best way to setup NFSv4?

2008-08-02 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 21:09 -0700, nate wrote: It's quite possible that my information about LDAP is out of date, I admit I haven't been on the cutting edge of that technology recently, though I still interface with my home installation on a regular basis(just added some new mail aliases

Re: [CentOS] Using CentOS 5 as server; best way to setup NFSv4?

2008-08-02 Thread nate
Craig White wrote: it is...syncrepl has been available for quite some time (master - master) the way to deal with ssl/multiple LDAP servers is to use TLS_CACERTDIR on the clients so you can have multiple certs for the clients to use migration from openldap 2.2 to 2.3 doesn't require any

Re: [CentOS] Using CentOS 5 as server; best way to setup NFSv4?

2008-08-02 Thread Ryan Dunn
On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 12:44 AM, MJT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are running your lan as a lab to learn, I would suggest one thing. From what I have read, it seems you just want to have everything work together in a simple manor. Since you have windows involved, you might consider

Re: [CentOS] Using CentOS 5 as server; best way to setup NFSv4?

2008-08-02 Thread MJT
On Saturday 02 August 2008 6:25:07 pm Ryan Dunn wrote: One thing that I've been somewhat confused on is how to tell the NFS server to only use v4 or v3?  Right now I've only got tcp 2049 open in the centos firewall, so I'm assuming that it is NFSv4, but other than that, I don't know how to

Re: ****Re: [CentOS] Using CentOS 5 as server; best way to setup NFSv4?

2008-08-02 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2008-08-02 at 20:25 -0400, Ryan Dunn wrote: On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 12:44 AM, MJT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are running your lan as a lab to learn, I would suggest one thing. From what I have read, it seems you just want to have everything work

[CentOS] Using CentOS 5 as server; best way to setup NFSv4?

2008-08-01 Thread Ryan Dunn
I've got a server running CentOS 5.2 and has a working NFSv4 server. I've been looking for some help on this on the net, but haven't come across anything that looks like it would pertain to my situation. Basically, I've got a mixed distro environment (CentOS, Fedora, openSuSE, Ubuntu, Puppy, and

Re: [CentOS] Using CentOS 5 as server; best way to setup NFSv4?

2008-08-01 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 19:27 -0400, Ryan Dunn wrote: I've got a server running CentOS 5.2 and has a working NFSv4 server. I've been looking for some help on this on the net, but haven't come across anything that looks like it would pertain to my situation. Basically, I've got a mixed distro

Re: [CentOS] Using CentOS 5 as server; best way to setup NFSv4?

2008-08-01 Thread Timothy Selivanow
On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 20:04 -0400, Ryan Dunn wrote: If I were to use LDAP, what would happen if I tried to use the laptop in the absence of the server? Is a local copy stored, ala how my work windows network works? If you have nscd (Name Services Caching Daemon) enabled, yes. However, that

Re: [CentOS] Using CentOS 5 as server; best way to setup NFSv4?

2008-08-01 Thread Ryan Dunn
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 8:22 PM, Timothy Selivanow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 20:04 -0400, Ryan Dunn wrote: ... If you have nscd (Name Services Caching Daemon) enabled, yes. However, that will only cache the UID/GID lookups, and not authentication. If you are using

Re: [CentOS] Using CentOS 5 as server; best way to setup NFSv4?

2008-08-01 Thread nate
Ryan Dunn wrote: Thanks for the input. What would you recommend as a home file server instead? Samba? Also, I just got the RHCE book and am just testing things out, so it has been a nice learning experience for me. Depends on what clients you have, if there is a chance there will be windows

Re: [CentOS] Using CentOS 5 as server; best way to setup NFSv4?

2008-08-01 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 17:33 -0700, nate wrote: I personally don't like LDAP(after having used it for many years now). I do use it at home, though only two of the 6 systems I have are actually using it(I also use it for mail routing but that is a legacy thing I setup 7 years ago that I haven't

Re: [CentOS] Using CentOS 5 as server; best way to setup NFSv4?

2008-08-01 Thread Chris Brentano
I would second OpenLDAP, having used it in production at two different employers. It's always been stable and reliable. If you're restarting slapd every 15 minutes I'd take a good hard look at the problem versus just migrating away from it. On that note, we recently migrated to Active

Re: [CentOS] Using CentOS 5 as server; best way to setup NFSv4?

2008-08-01 Thread nate
Chris Brentano wrote: I would second OpenLDAP, having used it in production at two different employers. It's always been stable and reliable. If you're restarting slapd every 15 minutes I'd take a good hard look at the problem versus just migrating away from it. I've been using LDAP for quite

Re: [CentOS] Using CentOS 5 as server; best way to setup NFSv4?

2008-08-01 Thread MJT
On Friday 01 August 2008 5:27:50 pm Ryan Dunn wrote: If you are running your lan as a lab to learn, I would suggest one thing. From what I have read, it seems you just want to have everything work together in a simple manor. Since you have windows involved, you might consider having