Linux Journal: OpenLDAP with Linux and Windows
Aug 06, 2002, 14:30 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Francesco Tornieri)
"The 'Students' Project at the University of Verona is based on
OpenLDAP (it's an open-source implementation of LDAP) for managing
the centralized authentication of both Windows and Linux
laboratories, as well as mail accounts for professors and students
from all departments (use of Qmail, Courier and Imp). The
'Students' server manages five laboratories: the alpha laboratory
(only Linux workstations), the beta laboratory (only Linux
workstations), the gamma laboratory (only Windows 2000
workstations), the delta laboratory (Linux and Windows 2000 system,
workstations have two different boots) and the tesi laboratory
(only Linux workstations).
"Two different problems emerged: 1) how do we create a database
that allows access to PCs with the Linux OS rather than to PCs with
the Windows OS? and 2) how do we allow the correlation between a
single server and PCs with both Linux and Windows systems?
"These problems have been solved by using OpenLDAP and Samba TNG
software. A Linux cluster (Red Hat with the Piranha package)
manages all the laboratories. Because the server needs to support
some heavy work (each student is supposed to have an entry in the
database), we have set up the Linux cluster to provide services
with continuity..."
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