RHEL PDC

[Rick Stevens]

Karl Pearson wrote:
> On Mon, June 15, 2009 12:33 pm, Rick Stevens wrote:
>> Lupo, Kelly wrote:
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com
>>>> [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Waldher,
>>>> Travis R
>>>> Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 9:59 AM
>>>> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
>>>> Subject: RE: RHEL PDC
>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-
>>>>> list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Lupo, Kelly
>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 8:49 PM
>>>>> To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com
>>>>> Subject: RHEL PDC
>>>>>
>>>>> Are there any Liux-newb-friendly guides for setting up a primary
>>>>> domain controller using RHEL of any version (or any RH-based distro
>>>>> -
>>>>> at this point I'll take what I can get), beginning from the install
>>>>> of
>>>>> the OS, and going all the way through to configuring Samba, LDAP,
>>>>> etc?
>>>>> There are quite a few just for setting up Samba and such for a
>>>>> server
>>>>> with Linux already on it, but I was looking more for something that
>>>>> began at the beginning; which packages need to be selected for
>>>>> install and such.
>>>>> (Hopefully nipping any dependency issues before they crop up...)
>>>>>
>>>>> Any advice is greatly appreciated!
>>>>>
>>>> I am attempting to get LDAP setup now and went for the GUI approach.
>>>>
>>>> I'll let you know when I get this working.  The LDAP part is
>>>> supposedly working, but I
>>>> was going for a GUI to manage LDAP (command line LDAP is cumbersome)
>>>> and landed in a
>>>> GLIB/GTK compiling nightmare.  Seems you can't compile GTK without
>>>> first upgrading
>>>> GTK, which means compiling GTK, which I can't because.... My desk has
>>>> a forehead sized
>>>> dent in it now.
>>>>
>>> Lol, I don't envy you in that one.  Last time I had that type of
>>> situation, I gave up and started over; please let me know if you fix
>>> it a different way, though!
>>>
>>> The only thing I can think of, would be to boot a liveCD of the same
>>> distro, compile it there, transfer to USB drive, and hope it worked on
>>> the main one...  I'm not too sure how effective that would be
>>> though...
>> If you need an LDAP GUI client, I'd recommend GQ.  Webmin also has
>> reasonable LDAP tools, both as a client and to manage the server.
> 
> Speaking of Webmin; when was it removed from the fedora repos? Or am I
> dreaming and it wasn't ever in fedora and I'm just remembering it being
> in Redhat v8, which was the last 'redhat' I used on my servers?

I don't recall it ever being in Fedora, but I could be wrong there.  I
always just got the tarballs and installed from there.
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