Hi Nico, I am not sure if I do not get your message right, or if you did not have a look at Debian-LAN and the links I provided at all. ;-)
On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 09:28:22PM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > Wait, I know? L:et's have it do dynamic DNS, host authentication, and LDAP > based account management, too! Indeed it does. And in addition PXE installation, ICINGA and Munin system monitoring of all machines, disk quota, a web proxy (Squid), a package proxy (apt-cacher-ng), a local APT repository, etckeeper, a firewall (shorewall), system backup, firewall (shorewall), customized package selection, diskless workstations, roaming workstation (off-line use possible), internal email, ... All this is to my knowledge not part of Samba. > And in 20 years, maybe it'll have 1/1000th > the number of users that the Samba suite has right now, for all of that, > especially including robust and tested Kerberos management with already > tested tools! > > Sorry to rain on the parade, but Samba's been pretty good at this since > Samba was invented in the early 1990's, and it's pretty stable. It also > plays nicely with other well known network clients and protocols, such as > Windows based and Mac based clients, so there's really no need to re-invent > that wheel specifically in Debian. The Debian ports of Samba re up to date > and quite stable. Debian-LAN does not try to re-invent the wheel. It provides a system by taking available 'wheels', gluing them together with the necessary configurations to make the building blocks work together nicely. In fact, one of the goals of Debian-LAN is to keep all modifications to a standard Debian system as little as possible. In an ideal world, the installation of a set of (preseeded) Debian packages would be sufficient. Samba might be one of the components of the Debian-LAN system, taking care about some of the services needed. It is currently not used, but if it turns out that it improves and/or simplifies the setup, nothing can and should stop us from using it. What do you think about the freeIPA project <URL:http://www.freeipa.org>? I guess we should move further discussions to the Debian-LAN mailing list to not spam all the other lists by cross-postings. Best regards, Andi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131005094218.GA4179@flashgordon
