Re: Debian-LAN: installing a complete network environment

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Wait, I know? L:et's have it do dynamic DNS, host authentication, and LDAP
based account management, too! And in 20 years, maybe it'll have 1/1000th
the number of users that the Samba suite has right now, for all of that,
especially including robust and tested Kerberos management with already
tested tools!

Sorry to rain on the parade, but Samba's been pretty good at this since
Samba was invented in the early 1990's, and it's pretty stable. It also
plays nicely with other well known network clients and protocols, such as
Windows based and Mac based clients, so there's really no need to re-invent
that wheel specifically in Debian. The Debian ports of Samba re up to date
and quite stable.




On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 5:18 AM, Andreas B. Mundt <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I would like to point your attention to the Debian-LAN project [1].
>
> Debian-LAN is an approach to simplify installing a complete kerberized
> network environment made of Debian machines.  It might be used for
> schools, small enterprises, associations, (university) work groups or
> to install complex test environments.
>
> Debian-LAN provides a way to install a server and various workstation
> profiles [2] by providing a FAI [3] config space for the setup.
>
> The system has been presented on DebConf13, slides and recordings are
> available [4].  The code is in wheezy-backports [5] or on alioth [6].
>
> If you run systems as described above, give Debian-LAN a try!
> Comments and contributions are of course welcome.
>
> Best regards,
>
>      Andi
>
>
> [1] <URL:https://wiki.debian.org/DebianLAN>
> [2] <URL:https://wiki.debian.org/DebianLAN/Setup_A#Machine_Types>
> [3] <URL:http://fai-project.org/>
> [4] <URL:http://penta.debconf.org/dc13_schedule/events/962.en.html>
> [5] <URL:
> http://packages.debian.org/source/stable-backports/debian-lan-config>
>     The system's target is always the latest stable Debian release.
> [6] <URL:http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/debian-lan.git>
>
>
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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div>Wait, I know? L:et&#39;s have it do dynamic DNS, host=
 authentication, and LDAP based account management, too! And in 20 years, m=
aybe it&#39;ll have 1/1000th the number of users that the Samba suite has r=
ight now, for all of that, especially including robust and tested Kerberos =
management with already tested tools!<br>
<br></div><div>Sorry to rain on the parade, but Samba&#39;s been pretty goo=
d at this since Samba was invented in the early 1990&#39;s, and it&#39;s pr=
etty stable. It also plays nicely with other well known network clients and=
 protocols, such as Windows based and Mac based clients, so there&#39;s rea=
lly no need to re-invent that wheel specifically in Debian. The Debian port=
s of Samba re up to date and quite stable.<br>
<br><br></div></div><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><br><br><div class=3D"gmail_=
quote">On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 5:18 AM, Andreas B. Mundt <span dir=3D"ltr">&=
lt;<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]" target=3D"_blank">[email protected]=
</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1p=
x #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi all,<br>
<br>
I would like to point your attention to the Debian-LAN project [1].<br>
<br>
Debian-LAN is an approach to simplify installing a complete kerberized<br>
network environment made of Debian machines. =A0It might be used for<br>
schools, small enterprises, associations, (university) work groups or<br>
to install complex test environments.<br>
<br>
Debian-LAN provides a way to install a server and various workstation<br>
profiles [2] by providing a FAI [3] config space for the setup.<br>
<br>
The system has been presented on DebConf13, slides and recordings are<br>
available [4]. =A0The code is in wheezy-backports [5] or on alioth [6].<br>
<br>
If you run systems as described above, give Debian-LAN a try!<br>
Comments and contributions are of course welcome.<br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
<br>
=A0 =A0 =A0Andi<br>
<br>
<br>
[1] &lt;URL:<a href=3D"https://wiki.debian.org/DebianLAN" target=3D"_blank"=
>https://wiki.debian.org/DebianLAN</a>&gt;<br>
[2] &lt;URL:<a href=3D"https://wiki.debian.org/DebianLAN/Setup_A#Machine_Ty=
pes" target=3D"_blank">https://wiki.debian.org/DebianLAN/Setup_A#Machine_Ty=
pes</a>&gt;<br>
[3] &lt;URL:<a href=3D"http://fai-project.org/" target=3D"_blank">http://fa=
i-project.org/</a>&gt;<br>
[4] &lt;URL:<a href=3D"http://penta.debconf.org/dc13_schedule/events/962.en=
.html" target=3D"_blank">http://penta.debconf.org/dc13_schedule/events/962.=
en.html</a>&gt;<br>
[5] &lt;URL:<a href=3D"http://packages.debian.org/source/stable-backports/d=
ebian-lan-config" target=3D"_blank">http://packages.debian.org/source/stabl=
e-backports/debian-lan-config</a>&gt;<br>
=A0 =A0 The system&#39;s target is always the latest stable Debian release.=
<br>
[6] &lt;URL:<a href=3D"http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=3Dcollab-maint/d=
ebian-lan.git" target=3D"_blank">http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=3Dcoll=
ab-maint/debian-lan.git</a>&gt;<br>
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