I have a small group of research machines, including a dedicated file server connected to a raid. All machines are running the latest Ubuntu server. I'm attempting to set it up so that I can have centralized user management and user home directories. The machines will all be headless with users connecting through freenx.
I currently have the file server configured as an ldap server and have ldap auth over SSH configured on it. It seems to do what I'm looking for, but I'm concerned that it won't be scalable. For instance, I can add and manage users through phpldapadmin, which makes it easier, but I still have to create the user's home did and copy the skeleton files by hand. Password management also isn't as simple as a user just typing passed on the command line.
I've heard good things about samba4, but can't find much about setting it up.
Is there a better way to go about this? Also, if I use unified home directories, will I hit issues if a user logs into a freenx session on two different machines?
I currently have the file server configured as an ldap server and have ldap auth over SSH configured on it. It seems to do what I'm looking for, but I'm concerned that it won't be scalable. For instance, I can add and manage users through phpldapadmin, which makes it easier, but I still have to create the user's home did and copy the skeleton files by hand. Password management also isn't as simple as a user just typing passed on the command line.
I've heard good things about samba4, but can't find much about setting it up.
Is there a better way to go about this? Also, if I use unified home directories, will I hit issues if a user logs into a freenx session on two different machines?