[ydl-gen] Help for a newbie

[Derick Centeno]

Excuse me, Erick.  I should have read the details you posted more  
thoroughly.
According to what is posted here:
http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/support/hardware/apple-powermac- 
g5.shtml

You should expect trouble with the ATI Radeon X800 XT graphics card.

All the best...

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Erick Curtis  
<pocatellomac at cableone.net> wrote:
> Thanks for the Info.  We just can afford the upgrade to leopard
> server because of money issues, so I'm looking for a free alternative.
>
> Erick
>
>
> On Oct 30, 2008, at 7:06 AM, ps wrote:
>
>> On 29 Oct 2008, at 9:58 PM, pocatellomac at cableone.net wrote:
>>
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> My name is Erick I'm the system admin for two Mac based labs at
>>> Idaho State University.  We are currently running an open
>>> directory server off of Panther server.  We upgraded to leopard
>>> clients and open directory doesn't work that well.  I'm thinking of
>>> migrating our server to Yellow dog linux, but need to know if you
>>> can serve Macs and open directory from Linux.  Has anyone
>>> done this.  My machine is a Dual dual core 2.5 Ghz G5 with 8GB of
>>> RAM and 2 TB of storage.
>>>
>>> Any Suggestions?
>>>
>>> Erick
>>
>> Hi Erick,
>>
>> While running YDL is possible on the machine you specify I think it
>> might be more problematic replicating Open Directory in an LDAP
>> database.  My feeling is that you'd be able to get some of the basic
>> schema and authentication down, but to what degree of  
>> functionality, I
>> don't know.   I'd check out the Open LDAP community for more leads in
>> that area, and possibly even afp548.com and macenterprise.org.
>>
>> You mention upgrading your clients to Leopard, but not the server.
>> Panther's OD is largely dependent on the gone-from-Leopard NetInfo
>> schema.  Leopard has completely ditched NetInfo*.   Tiger clients are
>> more or less fine with a Panther server, but if you have Leopard
>> clients you will save yourself a bunch of headaches by upgrading to
>> Leopard Server.  Leopard server can authenticate older clients, but
>> the opposite, as you illustrate, doesn't do so well.  Perhaps this
>> would be a more direct and faster method?
>>
>> *For a good article on this, see:
>> http://www.afp548.com/article.php?story=LeopardServerReview-
>> LocalDirectory&query=netinfo
>>
>> cheers
>> :peter
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