RE: [SLE] using SuSE as workstations in an academic environment
-----Original Message----- From: Super Code Monkey [mailto:super_code_monkey@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 2:30 PM To: SLE Subject: RE: [SLE] using SuSE as workstations in an academic environment
This would be used in a university library for the computer lab. Currently, the campus IT department is 99% windows; they use widows for everything, including that active directory.
In that case, I'd imagine that it should be pretty easy. In terms of the systems architecture, figure out how many of these things you want to deploy, and then put together an autoyast script for them. This does have requirements as far as a build server, etc, but they're not too bad. More info on autoyast is available at http://yast.suse.com/autoinstall/ You can pretty much script the entire build-and-deploy process within the autoyast control file. One recommendation: start by building a machine by hand, and get LDAP auth against Active Directory working first; make sure that's solid before you commit to anything (because if it's not, it could turn into a real pain down the road). But yeah...as long as you have hardware that'll support SuSE without hiccups (that is, has all the right drivers and the like), and you can put together an autobuild script, it should be simple. - Ian
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Depending on what apps you need to run, many used in a university lab are not supported under linux and aren't fully functional under wine e.g. SciFinder Scholar runs under wine but doesn't have a linux version or your university may have a site licesence for the windows version but not for the linux version (eg MATLAB or SAS) however, for "most" people linux will be fine, all you need is a wordprocessor, spreadsheet, text editor, browser, and AIM client (not usually officially supported but ends up on the machines anyway :) ) - -- Tad Whiteside Chemistry Department University of Georgia 706-542-2051 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDJeJpXmZckhe5ygMRAuivAJwMqI9sjp/7YzBsAPiqyfvnB7MWeQCfV0r9 ufgabRsstUspnRfhxKBJmGo= =lIMS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Dear Mr Monkey, Please pardon a mild thread diversion. But on Tue, 13 Sep 2005 04:38 am, Marlier, Ian teased:
One recommendation: start by building a machine by hand, and get LDAP auth against Active Directory working first;
I have a setup that authenticates off Active Directory using krb5, but uses local password and group files to store user details like UserName, UID, Groups, home dir etc. Have you tied them closer to AD LDAP? Using which schema to include a Unix user info into AD? Thanks for any pointers, michaelj PS: Upgrading from Suse8.2 to SLES9 gave a krb5 bonus; checking an AD password that is due to expire, doesn't cause authentication to fail like it used to the password change is prompted for during login and suceeds in changing the AD password. -- Michael James michael.james@csiro.au System Administrator voice: 02 6246 5040 CSIRO Bioinformatics Facility fax: 02 6246 5166 No matter how much you pay for software, you always get less than you hoped. Unless you pay nothing, then you get more.
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