[ale] NFSv4, Kerberos, and OpenLDAP

Brian Pitts brian at polibyte.com
Sun Mar 23 00:27:05 EDT 2008


Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> I keep getting the feeling that there should be something simple and
> obvious that I am missing, and yet I don't get it.
> 
> I have several machines on my home network.  At any given point, any one
> of them is likely to be temporarily unavailable for one reason or
> another.  I'd like for such issues to not have a huge impact on me; that
> is, I'd like for my home directory (and everyone else's home
> directories) to be stored on the server, and I would also like the user
> accounts and the information that is associated with them to be stored
> on the server.  The machines involved are all Ubuntu boxes, so this
> should be a bit easier than if the network were hybrid... though in the
> future I would like to add the ability to hook Windows clients into the
> network, too, should the need arise.
> 
> To that effect, I have installed support on the server for Kerberos,
> OpenLDAP, and NFSv4.  However, I can't quite get the whole thing to work
> together.

Are you actually going to use any kerberized services, or could you get 
away with a simpler setup like OpenLDAP + NFSv3 ?

-Brian


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