[K12OSN] Remote Accounts

[Mark Gumprecht]

David,
I don't use SME server, but how I do it for my network (centos4.4) is 
nfs export of home directories on a file server. Then an /etc/fstab 
entry on the remote machine of
"xx.xx.xx.xx:/home  /home  nfs  defaults,rsize=8192,wsize-8192  0  0", 
where xx.xx.xx.xx is the IP of your nfs share.
I also run authconfig on the remote machines and choose ldap as the 
authentification. I would guess that SME would allow the same.
HTH
Mark

David Ackerman wrote:
> I am wondering if there is a way that all user accounts on the K12LTSP 
> can come from a remote server?  It would be nice to have one 
> centralized account system.  Here is the setup I am envisioning 
> (almost all complete now): 
>
> Internet 
> | 
> | 
> | 
> External WAN 
>       DHCP/Proxy/Filter (ubuntu)
> |Internal LANs - - - - - -K12LTSP server - - - - Some LTSP clients 
> | 
> | 
> Internal LAN 
>     Email/LDAP/Web server (SME 7) 
> External WAN 
> | 
> | 
> | 
> Internet 
>
> I want the SME server to be what keeps the accounts.  I want all 
> accounts for LTSP clients to come from the SME also.  That way, users 
> only need to change one password and administrator only needs to 
> create one account.  The SME server is easy to enable LDAP.  I think I 
> can configure the firewall in the DHCP server to allow the two vlans 
> to communicate.  So it is a matter of setting up the K12 server to 
> allow this to happen. 
>
> Is this possible and how?
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I am wondering if there is a way that all user accounts on the K12LTSP 
> can come from a remote server?  It would be nice to have one 
> centralized account system.  Here is the setup I am envisioning 
> (almost all complete now):
>
>  
>
> Internet
>
>  
>
> |
>
>  
>
> |
>
>  
>
> |
>
>  
>
> External WAN
>
>  
>
>       DHCP/Proxy/Filter (ubuntu)
>
>  
>
> |Internal LANs - - - - - -K12LTSP server - - - - Some LTSP clients
>
>  
>
> |
>
>  
>
> |
>
>  
>
> Internal LAN
>
>  
>
>      Email/LDAP/Web server (SME 7)
>
>  
>
> External WAN
>
>  
>
> |
>
>  
>
> |
>
>  
>
> |
>
>  
>
> Internet
>
>  
>
>  
>
> I want the SME server to be what keeps the accounts.  I want all 
> accounts for LTSP clients to come from the SME also.  That way, users 
> only need to change one password and administrator only needs to 
> create one account.  The SME server is easy to enable LDAP.  I think I 
> can configure the firewall in the DHCP server to allow the two vlans 
> to communicate.  So it is a matter of setting up the K12 server to 
> allow this to happen.
>
>  
>
>  
>
> Is this possible and how?
>
>  
>
>  
>
> David
>
>  
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
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Mark Gumprecht
MSAD3
Unity, Maine 04988
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