I work as a system administrator for a chemical company. I manage a couple of servers including a 2k3 Windows Server. We have decided to migrate to Linux and leave the Microsoft Window platform for good but a problem appeared: it seems there is no roaming profiles for Linux clients.
As far as I could learn Samba has the roaming profiles feature but only for MS Windows clients. Am I right?
I think I can emulate the behaviour syncing the local home directory with a network folder but if this feature exists under Linux without using rsync I won’t have the need to do that way.
On Tue, 08 Mar 2011 22:36:02 +0000, Panchux wrote:
> I think I can emulate the behaviour syncing the local home directory
> with a network folder but if this feature exists under Linux without
> using rsync I won’t have the need to do that way.
Put the home directories on a server and mount them from the clients
using NFS. That works as long as the clients are connected to the
network (if you have roaming clients, you’ll need to sync data to the
desktops).
Jim, thank you for your input.
Normally roaming profiles feature works locally and sync with the server on logout/shutdown.
Only in case the local profile does not exist the server copies the profile to the local hard drive. When user logs off the server profile is updated with the local profile.
To emulate this I need to:
Verify if local home directory exists for the user
If not create it and sync with server profile
If it does exist sync with the server profile so the most updated data is available on both sides
Sync with server on log out
So I will need 2 scripts one for start up and another for shutdown/log off. I t seems a bit complicated although it’s not impossible. Maybe there is a way to achieve this with LDAP + SAMBA or autofs.
And of course NTP is a must for both client and server.
> Hi
> There is always iFolder or Dropbox (forgot the name of the other one
> that’s about now) as well for syncing.
>
> There are some prebuilt iFolder servers in the Gallery at
> http://susestudio.com.
>
Panchux;
You should also look at NIS and/or ldap for authentication and accessing the
home directory.
P. V.
“We’re all in this together, I’m pulling for you.” Red Green
On Tue, 08 Mar 2011 23:07:43 +0000, malcolmlewis wrote:
> [/QUOTE]
> Hi
> There is always iFolder or Dropbox (forgot the name of the other one
> that’s about now) as well for syncing.
>
> There are some prebuilt iFolder servers in the Gallery at
> http://susestudio.com.
Spideroak.
I use iFolder Enterprise myself, but I don’t know that I’d use it to sync
my entire home folder.
> Hi
> There is always iFolder or Dropbox (forgot the name of the other one
> that’s about now) as well for syncing.
>
> There are some prebuilt iFolder servers in the Gallery at
> http://susestudio.com.
Spideroak.
I use iFolder Enterprise myself, but I don’t know that I’d use it to
sync my entire home folder.
[/QUOTE]
I thought it was called something with eight legs…
Yup I use iFolder here as well, just some of the important stuff and
some of the common configuration files I use.
i wonder, just as a matter of curiosity: as the administrator charged
with keeping the stuff secure and up-to-date, i wonder if you will opt
for the short lived openSUSE, or SLE_, or maybe Evergreen or Tumbleweed…
i’m thinking about 150 workstations and some rather large number of
folks: are you going to expose them to an annual user interface change
which (if history holds true) has rather large differences in the
layout and how to accomplish tasks, etc…
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DenverD
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[NNTP posted w/openSUSE 11.3, KDE4.5.5, Thunderbird3.0.11, nVidia
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“It is far easier to read, understand and follow the instructions than
to undo the problems caused by not.” DD 23 Jan 11
Denver, I’m using openSUSE 11.2 rigth now in my laptop and it works much better than 11.3 in my desktop PC.
openSUSE 11.2 will be 2 years old in a couple of months. So there will not be anual changes. Once everything is installed a setup if it ain’t broken we don’t fix it.
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DenverD
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD
[NNTP posted w/openSUSE 11.3, KDE4.5.5, Thunderbird3.0.11, nVidia
173.14.28 3D, Athlon 64 3000+]
“It is far easier to read, understand and follow the instructions than
to undo the problems caused by not.” DD 23 Jan 11
