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Re: [PLUG] I have an idea
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> On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 09:48:38AM -0400, Michael Leone wrote:
> > Well, in my NDS tree I can register workstations. For example, when you
log
> > into the NDS tree, it registers the workstation you're using. In my
case,
> > witha combination of user ID, machine name, MAC address, OS and CPU. So
I
> > have entries like:
> >
> > MJL-MIKE_LEONE-0090273eb80b-(WINNT-PENTIUM)
> >
>
> Thats where samba comes in. Its good at that part.
Well ... no, actually. The info above comes from interrogating the
workstation itself. Samba has more to do with file/print sharing, and
NETBIOS name resolution. The above object ID is sort of a combination "who",
"ifconfig" and "uname", which is then stored in the directory. Samba
wouldn't really help you get any of this info. Might help storing it, tho,
depending on where the database that you keep these entries lives.
NDS (and MAD, to a lesser extent) are just distributed databases. NDS
databases can be partitioned, too, where MAD can not.
> There's a working prototype of roaming ssh-keys I have here... Other apps
> could follow. Other stuff like login scripts/profiles/MS stuff can be done
> with samba. I dont see where it would be useful to have a roaming excel
> program if you log into a *nix box. :)
No. But then, all you'd have to do would be to check the OS type on the
station you're logging onto, and push apps down accordingly (Excel,
StarOffice, etc). Altho "pushing apps down" glosses MANY things over.
Or use the new network edition of Win4Lin, perhaps.
> > And of course, you assign rights to volumes, directories and files in
NDS,
> > too.
> >
>
> Not using NDS, I cant do that. Its all acl's and *nix permissions.
Well, that's what NDS stores - the acl's and permissions. It's just a
centralized store of those rights. And if you run the NDS for NT or Unix
(now called e-Directory), it stores rights for those platforms as well. In
the tree, so you're not limited to logging into just 1 server at a time.
> still, good stuff to know. And so the feature wish-list begins....
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