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well, that’s bizarre…

cause my A record is supposed to be macewindu.paoma.no-ip.biz and i wanted to also created an alias http://www.paoma.no-ip.biz…

i’m not too sure what it says that http://www.paoma.no-ip.biz is an illegal CNAME?!

any clue why it would do that?

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Thanks MacTroll

Will double check my plist…

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well, to get going more quickly, here is my hotmail add if you want to chat using messenger… [email protected]

otherwise, if you can’t come online, i recommend starting from a fresh install… and then i’ll tell you which packages you need to install and how to configure them…

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No probs, will do my best to help you…

by the way, are you not having this random bug where your ethernet connection simply dies?

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jerkyjerk, i just wanted to thank you for sharing all of your experience with us… that is great…

i check out your [url=http://http://www.jerkys.org/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=2490374]Open Directory & Kerberos Authentication with Debian and family[/url] and i know you said that its a rough draft, it seems you installed a whole lot of stuff, but i’m not sure they are all necessary….
to get mine going, i simply had to install the following with their dependancies:

krb5-config (1.12)
krb5-user (1.4.4-5ubuntu3)
ldap-utils (2.3.30-2)
libkadm55 (1.4.4-5ubuntu3)
libldap-2.3-0 (2.3.30-2)
libnss-ldap (251-7.5)
libpam-krb5 (2.6-1)
nscd (2.5-0ubuntu14)

as for your automounted nfs howto, that was great…. i’m sorry i didn’t find it early, it would have saved me a few hours of works!!!

i was authenticating Ubuntu 7.04 to the OD, but the sad thing is that there is a major network bug where it just keeps losing it ethernet network connection by reverting to a loopback…. really random, i’m surprised they released it like that! as a result, i got fed up with ubuntu and decided to get fedora cause everything is pretty much automated… also, i got some other random problems with ubuntu network users….

Uncle B, do you still need help with ubuntu authentication? which version of it are you using? and i presume you authenticating to an OD using kerberos?

jerkyjerk, would you like us to work together to write a proper howto for ubuntu authentication to an OD using kerberos?

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thank you jerkyjerk for your info… its was much appreciated… but i didn’t use it cause i managed to already authenticate using ubuntu 7….

as for uncle B, i’m busy working on my ubuntu 7 client authentication howto and once its done, i shall post it here…

but i’m still not clear on how to unify all 3 OSs to have one homedir and have what apple says….

quote:

“Network Home Directories

Home directories hosted on Mac OS X Server can be accessed from both Mac and Windows clients. This enables users to log in to any computer on the network — Mac or PC — and securely access all their personal files and system preferences from either platform.”

i just wander why to they mention something like this when you have to bend over backwards to unify windows and unix homedirs….

i think i must have missed something or i’m just assuming to much…

but i’ll go check systemboy’s setup again to see how he did it… thanks

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Hello again Mactroll

i was on the apple server website and i help upon this quote by apple…

“Network Home Directories

Home directories hosted on Mac OS X Server can be accessed from both Mac and Windows clients. This enables users to log in to any computer on the network — Mac or PC — and securely access all their personal files and system preferences from either platform.”

is that mambo jumbo, or a trick quote?

by the way, do would prefer me to create a new thread for this topic?

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MacTroll

thank you for all you help and input… i’m very much grateful…

for linux and mxc, all is pretty much sweet…
but without any surprises, i’ve still got a few issues with the windows clients…

i would have had the same homedir across all 3 OSs, but the problem with this is that each time i logout of a windows client, it replaces the network homedir with its content (ie, its local profile), it doesn’t sync, it just replaces!!!
is there a way of controlling this? have i missed something? or this windows just retarted… by the way, i’ve got 5 win2k, and 10 xp clients…

any advise concerning this?

by the way, is it possible to purely have network homedirs through smb using windows clients?

thank you for any input

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hello MacTroll

its seems you gave up on me, but no worries i’m starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel…

this is what i’ve learned in the last 2 weeks… please bare in mind that the OD and homedirs are on the same server…

1. i’ve finally managed to authenticate using Fedora Core 6 to the OD using kerberos… as you said, it was very easy using “authconfig-tui”…. but my boss still insisted that i use ubuntu as a client, so after 10 days of digging, i finally managed to get it to authenticate using kerberos… the only bizarre thing is that i have to put my password twice to authenticate… would you know why? i suppose it has something to do with my pam modules…

2. i decided to use nfs for the homedirs of the linux clients. to do so,
a) i used WGM (dah….), and did an nfs export of the “/Users” folder
b) still in WGM, under the “home” section of the accounts tab, i put these values….
Mac OS X Serve/Share Point URL: afp://example.com/Users/
Path: badgers
Home: /mnt/home/badgers
c) i mounted the nfs export on the linux client by modifying the fstab and adding this line to it…. example.com:/Users /mnt/home nfs rw,hard,intr 0 0

from here this is what i would like to do… would you be able to let me know if its good or bad?

Now that i’ve managed to get the linux clients authentication with the OD and using nfs to host the homedirs… it appears you told me that i could have “the same home with a bit of work, across all 3 OSs”. could you help me:

1. making the Mac OS X Clients access the same homedirs using afp
2. making the windows clients access the same homedirs using smb

thank you in advance for any input

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hi MacTroll

are you able to help me out? i’m sure you must be busy but i’m getting desperate cause i need to get this server up and running pretty soon…
are you able to help me out in any way?

by the way, i’m grateful to you for having taken time to answer me…

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[QUOTE][u]Quote by: MacTroll[/u][p]2) on RHFC it’s “authconfig” IIRC. This will walk you through setting up the LDAP auth settings and the Kerberos as well.

3) It’s usually easiest if you use the same for both. Not that you have to, but it does keep things simpler.

4) Yes, if you want to support Windows clients, you’ll need to enable the PDC. If you do enable the PDC, yes, you can have the same account, and the same home with a bit of work, across all 3 OSs.

5) You’ll have to read up on automounting NFS shares on Red Hat, should be readily googleable.[/p][/QUOTE]

once again mactroll, i’m grateful for your input…

2) if i use “authconfig”, does that also take care of the home directory? while googling i see that one is suppose to add an entry in the “common-session” pam module, ie, something like that “session required pam_mkhomedir.so skel=/etc/skel/”… what does that mean? where does it create the home folder? is it on the server or on the client?

4) would you be able to help me achieve this setup?

thanks

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[QUOTE][u]Quote by: MacTroll[/u][p]1) RedHat and Debian seem popular. Most any mainstream modern one should make this easy.

2) Most distros know have their own config tools to set this all up for you.

3) Typically this is most easiest when done via NFS. Automounting SMB is still a bit of a chore last time I looked at it.

4) No, you’re using LDAP for auth, so wouldn’t need the PDC.

5) Yes, and commonly done in situations like this.[/p][/QUOTE]

thanks so much mactroll for taking the time to answering….

1. i’ve decided to use fedora core 6, as client

2. i’ve been googling but i haven’t found anyone that explains how to authenticate to OD with the settings i mentioned in my 1st post… would you be able to explain or point me to someone who could help me please

3. Ok, NFS will be the one, but does that mean that i’ll also have to use NFS for the mac clients? sorry if all of these are dumb questions!

4. thats great news, but just to confirm, for windows clients, i’ll have to activate the PDC and as a result, will i also be able to access the same windows account using the os x and linux clients?

5. are there any special configurations that needs to be done for this to work?

thank you so much for your help

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