Article:		Discover the Power of Open Directory
Subject:		shamless plug & I look forward to the windows article
Date:		2007-06-07 02:10:32
From:		Jerky
Response to: local home dir?
I've always liked multi platform interoperability projects. I've been slowly compiling and publishing my notes on things like this. Since the second article isn't out but if anyone would see a bit more about how to get Linux(and some other UNIXes) working with NFS and Open Directory: http://www.jerkys.org/wiki/x/OwAf http://www.jerkys.org/wiki/x/YgAf I am looking forward to see how the Windows client is approached. That's the one I've spent the least amount of time with.

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• shamless plug & I look forward to the windows article
  2007-06-07 04:22:00  Noah Gift | [View]
  
  
  Glad to see your using Open Directory to talk to *nix clients! Both kerberos and ldap authentication just work out of the box with OD.
• shamless plug & I look forward to the windows article
  2007-06-07 10:49:54  Jerky [View]
  
  
  Open Directory definitely makes it easier. I tried for many years to wrap my head around LDAP & Kerberos auth using different linux and UNIX flavors and just couldn't get it. A few checkboxes and text fields and you have a fully functional Directory and KDC. Maybe now after seeing it fully working it would be a bit easier to go back and setup a linux on linux auth setup but using Open Directory cleared up some of the haze and is much simpler to get going.
• shamless plug & I look forward to the windows article
  2007-06-07 15:31:37  Noah Gift | [View]
  
  
  I completely agree. I often use OS X as a prototyping tool for Linux. If I wonder how something works on Linux, I set it up on OS X, look at the config files etc.