Subject: FRIDAY NIGHT: building openldap on debian
From: Tim Jordan (timothy_jordan@labor.state.ak.us)
Date: Thu Feb 19 2004 - 14:02:46 AKST
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On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 11:15, Jon Reynolds wrote:
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> From: Tim Jordan [mailto:timothy_jordan@labor.state.ak.us]
> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 7:41 AM
> To: jonr@destar.net
> Subject: RE: building openldap on debian
>
>
>
> On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 02:18, Jon Reynolds wrote:
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: aklug-bounce@aklug.org [mailto:aklug-bounce@aklug.org]On Behalf Of
> Tim Jordan
> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 10:32 AM
> To: andy@firman.us; aklug@aklug.org
> Subject: Re: building openldap on debian
>
>
> I will post my notes if the group doesn't mind. In fact I mean to
> migrate an existing AD domain over to ldap then set Samba as the PDC.
>
> The State is currently reviewing technologies which will be set as
> "standards" through out the State. Currently they are debating Novel
> -vs- Microsoft for File & Print Services. I forwarded the Migration
> Guide to one of the members of the Enterprise Management Group in hopes
> that Samba/LDAP will be included in thier discussions.
>
> It would be really nice if I could say " Take a look at what Samba &
> LDAP can really do for the State of Alaska!" I know it's a long shot
> but you never know.....after all isn't this the time for the State to
> cut spending?
>
> TJ
>
>
> On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 10:13, andy@firman.us wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 09:40:14AM -0900, Tim Jordan wrote:
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> > > I'm trying to locate a good "how to" for this project. I'm currently
> > > working off:
> > >
> > > http://homex.subnet.at/~max/ldap/#install-openldap and several links
> > > of this page.
> > >
> > > I'm running into problems getting the slapd to run. I have also been
> > > reviewing the openldap web site.
> > >
> > > Can anyone advise from personal experience ( I can google :)) about how
> > > they approached learning ldap? Anyone on the list currently supporting
> > > Samba w/a LDAP backend?
> > >
> > > Thanks aklug!
> > > Tim
> >
> > I immediately thought of the aphroland.de/HOWTO page. But I see your
> > link points directly to that one so there you go!
> >
> > LDAP is on my list of things to learn.
> >
> > If you don't mind...take good notes and post back here as
> > I would love to read about your experience.
> >
> > Andy
> >
> >
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>
>
> Jon, this sounds good. Where is this on Muldoon?
> How many people usually show up to the Friday night gathering?
>
>
> All,
>
> If you guys would like to show up at the Friday night meeting in Muldoon I
> have a lab of 20 450MHz 128MB of RAM machines that I have an image for that
> we could use as a test bed.
> What OS is the image?
>
>
> I also have an excellent O'Reilly LDAP book that
> could walk us through all of the setup. With the cumulative knowledge of the
> AKLUG group we could be stumped in 10 minutes.
>
>
> These are some of the items on my list:
> 1. Building an Openldap Server on Debian Woody.
> 2. How to populate Ldap with users, groups, and other objects.
> 3. Ldap replication.
> 3. Install & Configuring Samba to use ldap.
> 4. Configuring nss_ldap & pam_ldap for windows 2k, xp, and Linux client authentication:
> http://www.padl.com/Contents/OpenSourceSoftware.html
>
> 5. Migration tools:
> http://www.idealx.org/prj/samba/index.en.html
>
> I have the Samba 3 How To & Reference guide I can bring. I have worked with Samba 3 but not using Ldap as the backend.
>
>
> Hi Tim,
>
> If you know where East40 Bowl is on Muldoon, across the street from Fred Meyers, thats where we meetat 6:30pm every Friday.
> 1251 Muldoon Rd, just drive around to the back of the mall and you will see my tan Ford F150 crew cab and probably others also.
>
> There is usually a core of about 5 people that regularly show up, but we have been getting quite a few people usually around 10 sometimes as many as 18.
>
> The image that I spoke of is a WinXP image so I can restore the labs back to their original state, but I would be willing to build a Linux image using whatever distro you would need for testing which I assume will be debian, correct? Greg Madden has a debian mirror that he brings each weekend, so we would have the mirror locally.
>
> I also have the O'Reilly book 2nd Edition for samba 2.2-3.0 that I could bring and I could probably build a couple images of win2k for testing, would it be win2k pro or server?
>
> If the testing ran late and we needed to continue at a later time I can open the lab up on Saturday also and we could continue with the testing.
>
> I have been wanting to turn a couple of our Friday night meetings into learning or training sessions rather than just a bunch of us sitting around helping others with their problems.
>
> Does this sound like something you would like to do? If so let me know and I will go and build the debian and win2k image tonight so that everything will be ready for Friday. I would just do a complete install of Debian just to make sure we had everything we needed then you could fine tune your server when you were ready.
>
> Jon
> 301-0451 cell
>
> P.S. I don't see this thread on the AKLUG list so it seems as if my original post to you never made it on the list. If you reply, also reply to the list so that others will be able to add comments or suggestions.
>
Jon, I'm going to make a commitment to be there. I look forward to
meeting new people and digging in to OpenLdap :)
Thanks,
Tim
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