Re: [debian-lan-devel] Debian-LAN: installing a complete network environment

2013-10-05 Thread Andreas B. Mundt
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 acco

Re: Debian-LAN: installing a complete network environment

2013-10-04 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
I've been working with both Kerberos and Samba for 20 years. Writing "Yet Another Authentication Management Tool(tm)" sounds unappealing, since there are so many well established and tested ones. I'm actually curious what you found inadequate about Samba, especially if you used the 4.0.x releases w

Re: Debian-LAN: installing a complete network environment

2013-10-04 Thread Darko Gavrilovic
On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 9:28 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > 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

Re: Debian-LAN: installing a complete network environment

2013-10-04 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
Wait, I know? L:et's have it do dynamic DNS, host authentication, and LDAP based account management, too! 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 teste

Debian-LAN: installing a complete network environment

2013-10-04 Thread Andreas B. Mundt
Hi all, I would like to point your attention to the Debian-LAN project [1]. Debian-LAN is an approach to simplify installing a complete kerberized network environment made of Debian machines. It might be used for schools, small enterprises, associations, (university) work groups or to install co