Ok, so the day starts off bad. After reinstalling the system because a mistake in the ldap.conf made it go whack, I needed to start over. But between me leaving the computer yesterday and getting back on this morning, someone helped themselves to the install disc. I mean, it’s free software!
But the computer is working [...]
Pulling Teeth
Little Progress
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 [...]
Well, at least something works
I just got printers up and running. With the Ubuntu Printer Manager, it was easy enough. But that was just a little break from the real task of getting Ubuntu to log in to that blasted Open Directory server! I still can’t get it to work. I followed instructions here
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=597056
but when I first installed the [...]
To Mount or not to Mount, sa c’est la question
Ok, so I finally put the final touches on the software for the client and we moved it to the library!
Now the one big problem arises.
How are we going to get it to authenticate? OS X Server is really hard to authenticate against with Linux. Moez (Probably spelled his name wrong. sorry), [...]
The Essentials
Ok, so while I’m separated from the computer over the weekend, I decided to get some software essentials down.
First: FirstClass, one of the programs that our infrastructure relies on. This was easy enough; the company provides a Linux client complete with precompiled Debian package.
Then I need to get OpenDirectory working. This will [...]
