I’ve been working flat out for what seems like weeks with the big goal still not accomplished: Authentication.
Since the last post, however, I have:
-Enabled Compiz Desktop Effects, which moves processing of the window manager to the video card thus speeding up the system and making it all wobble 
-Connecting reliably to folders. This is the really infuriating part: I can access all my data on Bigbrother, everything I have permissions to with no problem at all. But I stil CAN’T AUTHENTICATE!!!!! My personal theory is that there’s a different auth server from Bigbrother and that’s why when I see a “cannot find LDAP server at IP” error in bootup. But that’s improbable as we’d probably already figured that out…
So it now has every functionality of the OS X laptops. But that’s still not good enough.
I managed to make the system unbootable today. That’s my majour accomplishment. Sad. I changed the boot policy to hard from soft so it keeps trying to connect to Bigbrother again and again and again and you get the picture. And I can’t just boot up a LiveCD and fix it because it’s on a virtual partition. But I found instructions on how to mount a virtual partition in Ubuntu, so it shouldn’t take that long to fix…
This is honestly driving me nuts. I’m going to ask Mr. Park if I can work until 5 after school on Tuesday and then the rest of the day on Wednesday as it’s a halfday, and then work until 5 on Thursday and Friday too. That’s how bad it’s getting.
Must… authenticate… user…
There must be something really really small and stupid I’m missing. I’ll post the ldap.conf as soon as I think of it so that anyone who might have an idea can look at it. Note to self: Look through lib-nss (or whatever that package is) as it’s implicated in the bootup error as not letting the server and client bind.
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