Re: [SLUG] Low power domain controller / user authentication ?

2007-01-07 Thread Kevin Saenz
Greg, it all depends on what you want, for authentication of windows machines, I use SEL (SuSE Enterprise Linux) because it ties LDAP, Samba, DNS, DHCP and a few other services nicely together. it's foot print is about 1.5 gig mark but it allows for central authentication. back in the

Re: [SLUG] Low power domain controller / user authentication ?

2007-01-07 Thread Joseph Goncalves
Hi Greg, The NSLU2 is a device from Linksys that is Linux based that was originally designed to share a USB drive over a network. It uses less than 10W. It is eminently hackable. My one is running Debian, but you have so much options with this device. http://www.nslu2-linux.org/ Regards Joseph

[SLUG] Low power domain controller / user authentication ?

2007-01-06 Thread Greg Wright
Hi All, Sorry I do not post much, but I do have a question that I would like to ask here... I have used a mixed network for my own use for years, primarily I always had Linux doing the grunt work for web services serving, but I also always had windows boxes, the problem is, as the network grows

Re: [SLUG] Low power domain controller / user authentication ?

2007-01-06 Thread Ben Donohue
you could always run vmware server on a powerful box and have a few machines on that. A machine running just authentication should not hit the machine very hard and it's using a maching you have on anyway. Also vmware server is free. Ben (recently i've done just this.) Greg Wright wrote: Hi