On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 22:03, Paul wrote: > > > > Concept is turnkey LDAP/Samba - they use the IDEALX scripts - no doubt > > that SLES 9 is using some implementation of them. > > The problem I think your trying to point out is simple tools can make > simple things easy, but once somebody needs to do something a little > more complex that they hit a wall and tool gets in the way because the > person using the tool does understand how things work underneath. If someone needed something complex, they would have already invented yet-another-schema to deal with their odd situation. What the rest of us need is an out-of-the-box server with a standard schema that supplies what the clients that already exist (in that same box...) expect and a management tool that knows that the matching posix and samba logins are the same person. If you think people will have trouble making a standard tool work when it comes with working defaults, consider how much harder it becomes when you have to build your own tool from parts and it ends up being one of a kind. There is quite a bit of talk on the k12ltsp list about this as they are trying to settle on a scripted approach to building a working LDAP configuration. It just doesn't make sense for every user to have to do that himself. -- Les Mikesell les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
