http://www.idealx.com/downloads/samba3-ldap-howto.pdf
We used these tools to set up the Samba bits. Setting up
the
certificates and getting OpenLDAP to use them was the most
difficult
part. Using these tools, the samba set up was reasonably
straightforward. As straightforward as Linux ever is, at
least.
This also has the nicest management interface I have used,
including a
couple of the comercial ones. It is web based and is a nice
compromise of flexibility and ease of use.
I don't have very much Apple hardware so I did not look at
their
directory package.
Even if you get a comercial solution, you're going to have
to do some
hacking... Windows is not designed to use LDAP directly, so
you
either have to use some external package that adds that
function (like
pGina, or Kerberos) or use something like Samba that
translates things
into windows-speak.
On 6/27/06, Luigi Manna <manna college.usc.edu> wrote:
>
>
> >>> On 6/27/2006 at 7:09 am, in message
> <8d71b5680606270709y361f344fmf037ec69f729bda0mail.gmail.com>,
> miedwardgmail.com wrote:
> > Hello Luigi,
> >
> > I recently set up a system like the one you
describe (ours works
> with
> > XP, OSX, Linux, and Solaris) and after researching
I decided to go
> > with OpenLDAP and Samba. I personally never found
a seamless
> > comercial solution I was happy with and at least
with the open
> source
> > tools you weren't dealing with yet another black
box.
>
> Samba + OpenLDAP last time I checked was very
difficult to implement
> with little management tools .. some sort of arcane art
!
> One of the Samba developers during a a Samba tutorials
actually showed
> us how complicated this is. Is your solution using
certificates and SSL
> ? Someone suggested using Mac OS X, did you look into
that ?
>
> >
> > Since you asked on this list, were you looking for
a solution that
> is
> > going to be scalable to a large cluster, or is
this just for your
> > servers and workstations?
> >
>
> I need a solution scalable to a 64 node cluster and
maybe more even
> though I think 2 LDAP/AD/eDirectory/ would suffice. The
solution needs
> to be also easy to manage since personnel is scarce.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Luigi--
>
> > Mike Edwards
> > UTSA/UTHSCSA Joint Computational Biology Facility
> >
> > On 6/26/06, Joe Landman <landmanscalableinformatics.com> wrote:
> >> Hi Luigi
> >>
> >> Luigi Manna wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > I am new on the list but not new with
Bioclusters. I am trying
> to
> >> > setup an authentication system for our 64
node cluster that
> integrates
> >> > with our web services (all Apache/PHP
based) and our desktop
> management
> >> > (mix of XP, Mac OS X and Linux). At the
moment there's no
> authentication
> >> > platform for any of these (other then
local files).
> >>
> >> Hmmm...
> >>
> >> > Is there a
> >> > commercial solution that you might
recommend that integrates
> >> > authentication among all these plaforms ?
I checked on Vintela
> and
> >> > Novell but I wanted to know what other
people are doing. I could
> just
> >> > run a secure OpenLDAP but its management
tools leave much to be
> >> > desidered and our management prefers
commercial tools for
> businees
> >> > continuity purposes.
> >>
> >> There are a variety of directory server
products out there. Fedora
> >> Directory Server is available from RedHat.
LDAP with a nice
> java-ish
> >> user interface. Sun has a directory server
available, as do Novell,
> and
> >> many others, including Microsoft.
Linux,OSX,XP can/should be able
> to
> >> integrate with all of these. There are others
as well.
> >>
> >> Simply depends upon how hard you want to work,
how much you want to
> >> spend on fancy tools.
> >>
> >> >
> >> > Any ideas ? Thanks much,
> >> >
> >> > Luigi--
> >> >
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