Re: RHEL PDC

[Rick Stevens <ricks nerd com>]

Karl Pearson wrote:
> On Mon, June 15, 2009 12:33 pm, Rick Stevens wrote:
> > Lupo, Kelly wrote:
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: redhat-install-list-bounces redhat com
> > > > [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces 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 redhat com [mailto:redhat-install-
> > > > > list-bounces redhat com] On Behalf Of Lupo, Kelly
> > > > > Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 8:49 PM
> > > > > To: redhat-install-list 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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