[ydl-gen] Help for a newbie

[Erick Curtis]

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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