Flexbeta Review : setting up SLES as a PDC without touching CLI

FACORAT Fabrice <[email protected]> Mon, 28 Mar 2005 22:22:40 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.mandrake.server
Message-ID <[email protected]>
http://www.flexbeta.net/main/printarticle.php?id=3D88

This review show how to setup SLES as a Primary Domain controler without us=
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CLI.
It shows how to setup OpenLDAP, SAMBA, dynamic DNS server, DHCP server ( wh=
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will update DNS records ). It also show how to manage user accounts and=20
profile.

Contrary to mdk wizards which just allow to install the different part very=
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basically, Suse ones provides more advanced feature which allow to combine=
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them.

Now a really winner solution would be to have a wizard that do all of this=
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automatically in 5 screens ( welcome & caution, domain settings [ DNS domai=
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name, admin user and password ], security settings [ key generation ],=20
installation & configuration, summary ).
Now if you provide LDAP support to userdrake and a plugin based architectur=
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to add dynamically SAMBA specific accounts settings support. You have clear=
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a winner especially for SOHO market.

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La mod=E9ration n'a pas de sens pour les femmes.
Plaute