Looking for a mentor/adviser

[Sean Parsons]

Matt,
	I haven't selected a distribution, I tried Ubuntu and Debian, and
didn't have a lot of success. My original post was simply to get someone
willing to mentor me to help me build as much equivalency as possible so I
can see if it can be done. How we were going to do this was yet to be
determined.

	I will insist that "IF" I determine it is feasible that support
contracts will be investigated for at least the short term.


Sean Parsons

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Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 2:13 PM
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Subject: Re: Looking for a mentor/adviser

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:
> oooo i finally found it in some mail archives...
>
> http://www.freeipa.org/page/Main_Page
>
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Actually there is this project:
>>
>> http://directory.fedoraproject.org/
>> http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Howto:WindowsSync
>> http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Download
>>
>> There is a spin off that i cant remember the name of, but it combined
>> with that project and adds some additional ease of use with Active
>> directory.
>>
>> That alone is a great start. as for what can be done it really boils
>> down to what you want i to do. What about exchange do you use? what on
>> those windows servers do you do what services and functions. knowing
>> what services you are running will help us advise you on alternatives.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:25 AM,  <sean at theparsonsfamily.com> wrote:
>>> I know I am absolutely not interested in muddying the waters by trying
>>> this with virtualized systems, maybe after I can actually get them to
>>> work..... I posted previously that I have dedicated hardware to use.
>>>
>>> You are also describing a combined network and I have already abandoned
>>> that idea, so putting another windows server together is not going to be
>>> what I'm looking for. As far as I can tell Linux doesn't have an AD
>>> equivalent except Samba 4 which isn't out yet.... Samba 3.x destroyed 2
>>> domain controllers trying to join it..... Not going to try that again
>>> anytime soon....
>>>
>>>
>>> Sean Parsons
>>>> I know that personally if you have just a desktop i would start with 3
>>>> virtual machines.
>>>>
>>>> AD server (windows) Linux server for new AD and then A client
workstation
>>>>
>>>> Virtualbox comes to mind as a nice portable interface for this. and it
>>>> is cross platform.
>>>>
>>>> issue with that is you will need about 4gb of ram to function on this
>>>> or there about.
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 9:58 AM,  <sean at theparsonsfamily.com> wrote:
>>>>> Ok, How would I build this sandbox as a list discussion?
>>>>>
>>>>> Sean Parsons
>>>>>
>>>>>> I personally agree that this would be great on list discussion.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> even if it is using Linux to support a MS platform, it still would be
>>>>>> educational for me at least.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 8:16 AM,  <sean at theparsonsfamily.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> Craig,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ----
>>>>>>>> Wouldn't it be more useful and instructive to keep your questions
on
>>>>>>>> list? You would benefit from a greater availability of opinions
too.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Also, it seems a bit unfair to want private advising and deprive
the
>>>>>>>> list of the knowledge that is gathered by solving problems which I
>>>>>>>> would
>>>>>>>> gather would be rather typical for many offices/businesses.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> There is no need to make changes to an AD environment to add Linux
>>>>>>>> servers and/or workstations.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Craig
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
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>>
>> Stephen
>>
>
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> Stephen
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This leads to another important question.  What distro are you looking
at?  Does your company require support contracts for the OS and apps?
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