[clug-talk] Project: Linux on AD Domain - Part01

[TekBudda]

Hi All,

OI know I have sent a similar post to this before but I thought i would 
update the information and approach it all in a slightly different way. 
  That & I can't find the old messages right now.

I eventually want to add all of my Linux boxes to my AD domain, but for 
now I am focusing on one of them.

Lisa's old computer was an aging, troublesome Windows 2000 box that she 
uses primarily for surfing, e-mail, chatting; but would like to also use 
it to manage her iPod & download music as well.  I have taken a brand 
new box & installed Linux Mint 9 (based on Ubuntu 10.04) on it.  I 
haven't added all teh apps yet, but that is minor at this point.

I was able to install Likewise Open & get it connected to the domain in 
a few minutes.  Likewise also has a GUI as well, but the CLI is a simple 
one line to join or leave the domain.  Slick!!!  She now has to logon 
using "domain\username" as the username & her AD password.

Up to this point I have been using roaming profiles to stores her 
Windows data (TBird/FF profiles, documents on H drive, etc.) on the 
server in D:\[USERDATA]\PROFILES\Lisa & D:\[USERDATA]\HOME\Lisa, with 
the appropriate information going to the correct folder.

In some of my discussions with people it was suggested that in order to 
do the same thing (roaming profile) with a Linux box, that I should 
create a "Profile-Linux" folder (using samaba) on the server that the 
linux home directory would go in.  But one problem that I would have is 
having both OS's using the data for TBird, FF, My Documents, Audio, 
Video, etc.

My plans have changed a bit since that point in time & I am looking to 
build a NAS (any suggestions for a good NAS software?) to store 
everything on instead of the server.  With this in mind, I am wondering 
if seperate folders are even needed or would I still need to separate 
things?  To complicate this further, I also lookin at adding Mac OD X to 
the mix & trying to do the same things.

Rigth nwo I have Windows Server 2003 as the only server, but would like 
to get it syncing with OpenLDAP running on CentOS as a BDC, until I 
switch to CentOS/OPenLDAP running as the PDC & a virtualized Server 2003 
as teh sendary.

So that shoudl be enough for part 1.  Any one have some suggestions? 
Ideas? warning? etc?