[BBLISA] Linux and desktops on isolated LAN

[Dean Anderson]

AFS.   www.openafs.org

AFS allows local caching, and optionally encrypts data transfers.  AFS 
was way ahead of its time.  In today's environment, AFS works very well 
over the internet with DSL and better connections.  When AFS was 
created, a decent WAN connection was 56Kbs.  

I use pam_afs modules to do the authentication, with local templates of 
the passwd and group files.

AFS is handy for backups, too.

I thought MIT was already big on AFS....

Good choice, I think, on the tapes.

		--Dean

On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Scott Ehrlich wrote:

> I have a Redhat Enterprise 5 server and a few dual boot WinXP w/SP2 and 
> CentOS 5 desktops, all on an isolated LAN.
> 
> I want to set up Samba on the Enterprise 5 box to permit the XP desktops 
> to centrally authenticate to the server as a Windows domain controller, 
> and thus don't have to worry about local accounts on the desktops.
> 
> All Linux boxes are configured with Firewall enabled and SELinux enforced.
> 
> For linux to linux (Enterprise to CentOS), what is the best way to 
> establish user home directories that, when a user sits at a workstation 
> and boots into Linux, no matter what desktop they sit at, they log into 
> their home directory, even if they end up using multiple workstations to 
> get their job done.
> 
> Finally, for now, what is the best way to parse data and user accounts to 
> the desktops to share data preservation for backups?  As present, we don't 
> have tape or raid, and they will take time to arrive.  So for now, the 
> desktops will act as our backup media, too.   The plan will be to select a 
> handful of user accounts and some centralized data and push a copy out to 
> one desktop, and repeat for another desktop.
> 
> Thanks for any insights/input.
> 
> I'm still parsing through the results of the tape backup question I asked 
> earlier.  I'll post those results in the near future.   Thus far, LTO3/4 
> format is the winner.
> 
> Scott
> 
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