Ubuntu Servers :: Small Office Network OpenLDAP Or Other Solutions
Jul 16, 2010
Small office... 20-30 computers all windows based. xp/vista/windows 7. 3 Servers running ubuntu 10.04... 1 domain controller, and two file servers with samba. We want to be able to login once in the morning, and then not have to worry about users/passwords at all throughout the day. So I was thinking that I could setup a PDC and then make the two filservers both BDC's and use ldap to authenticate everything. Would this even work out? and is there a better way to do it?
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Mar 8, 2010
I am trying to setup a file server for a small office but have hit a couple of hurdles, is there a step by step guide how to setup a network for windows and mac computers to use it? I had setup a share etc but once I restarted the server all the files disappeared which I had in the home folder? Also when I setup users how can I use passwords that I select as everytime I set one it encrypts it and uses that instead of my one?
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Jul 2, 2010
How to configure DNS server for my small network. In Fedora Linux operating system I want to use Linux as a DNS server for my small office. there are files " /etc/hosts" and "/etc/resolv.conf ".
what is the purpose of these files and in which situation we use these files? For configuring a new DNS server. how can i configure my own DNS server for my small office? Any blog or site in which they show steps to configure DNS server.
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Jun 7, 2010
I am about to set up a small office server. I want to know if it is possible to use ubuntu for file and printer sharing on a network with 9 winXP computers and three printers. The printers are all USB Compatible. There are seven winXP pro computers and two XP home.
Would it be possible to use CUPS and SAMBA for this configuration?
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Aug 4, 2010
I am looking for some advice on how best to lock down our office network to keep our employee's from wasting time on sites like facebook and ...... This will be my first time setting up a server as a gateway in a production environment so I thought I should get some suggestions on what the best packages would be to do this.
I essentially need to lock down our network so that i can monitor what everyone is doing on the Internet and block it if needed. it doesn't have to be web based or have a bunch of gui's, im fine with command line, configs and log files, but it would be nice.
I'm interested in commercial products as well as long as they are linux based.
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Sep 16, 2010
I am wanting to setup an office network consisting of three computers and one server. We already have the equipment ready with Vista Business pre-installed on the computers. I want to be able to create a network which allows users to use any machine as this will reduce downtime should a machine break. Also I would like user's files to be held centrally on the server which makes backups easier.
The most important element here is data backup. As like most businesses we are moving away from paper and using the computers to store important records such as customer information. If this data were to be lost, the business would come to a complete halt.
I have been looking at the idea of installing a Microsoft Small Business Server as it would be nice to have centralised control of the machines. However the cost would be over 800 which can not be justified for three machines and five users. Therefore I am turning to Linux for a alternative solution. I have previously used CentOS and Ubuntu for home use but never really gained much knowledge or experience of either.
It is my understanding that Samba can act as a Primary Domain Controller, which if I'm not mistaken is where it handles the network logins and profiles. Is this correct? I have come across many samba tutorials online but whats confusing is they are all different. Some of the tutorials involve using Kerberos and OpenLDAP. Do I need to learn about either of these? What do they do and what benefit will they bring?
Finally, I see Samba 4 is in development and is likely to bring a lot of new features which aren't available in Samba 3. Is this worth waiting for because I don't want to be upgrading everything again 6 months down the road?
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Mar 16, 2011
So I've been asked to install a file/printer server and, possibly, inet proxy for a small office (5 PCs). My concern is: There are:4 PCs on XP x32 1 PC on Win7 x642 Printers, one of them with a scanner Some buisness software they use does not cope with win7.Had hard time installing additional x64 drivers for printer (which are obsolete by now, I guess). Network runs on a simple router which is connected to internet. For now they have been using simple sharing of C: folders, which had freaked my out a bit.
So..Despite XP being old and a presence of x64 machine on the network, do I:install x64 server edition install x32 one What additional software, besides Samba and printer/scanner drivers, I will need to handle both architectures? I have rather basic understanding of how servers work, i.e. I run samba, apt-cacher, torrents on my home network.
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Jun 16, 2009
I had configured openvpn in my fedora 7. every thing seems ok. created all server,client certificates. and at client laptop i am using win xp. i installed vpn at client laptop n vpn is connected and client got the ip address of the range which i had defined in server.conf.
Now the problem is this that client vpn is connected and got the ip even than client not able to ping local network of my office.guys ur support n guidance needed.
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Jun 28, 2009
in my office i had configured openvpn on fedora 7, no problem in server side. my network is like this.Office Lan - 192.168.1.0/24vpn machine - 192.168.1.141/24 - (done port forwarding at router)now i had some clients who wants to access office lan from outside so i installed client certificates on their laptop whose OS is XP so my XP clients r easily le to connect to vpn from outside n can access the office lan i.e 192.168.1.0,but problems comes with the VISTA clients who r having VISTA can connect to vpn machine n they get the ip from linux vpn machine but VISTA client cant ping my office network i.e 192.168.1.0/24
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Aug 31, 2010
Are there any network backup solutions out there that are open source and awesome? Something that behaves and is easy like Symantec Netbackup or Arkeia network backup?
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Jul 25, 2010
I have spent some time testing out different backup solutions for my small home office during the last weeks, but still haven't found anything that have been working out too well yet. We can definitely work with a non-GUI script if that's what it takes, if only the requirements are fulfilled:
- Upload to Amazon S3 Europe. We get unbelievable slow uploading speed to US, so uploading 400+ GB of data will not be happening anytime this year...
- Incremental backups - only changed files shall be uploaded or we will have a big bill from Amazon in the end of each month..
- Files should not be uploaded in one big per-folder archive. This is not efficient at all, since if we change one file in a subfolder, a huge two-digit GB sized file would have to be uploaded during next backup. Not good for economy again, or traffic overhead on our internet connection.
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Dec 4, 2010
I'm looking to upgrade the infrastructure in our office (small web development shop). I'm going to buy a small floor standing rack and in it we will have a dedicated firewall / VPN box, a web development server and a fileserver (for now). I intend to use Debian squeeze for everything.
My main question is what should I do about RAID? I've not used it myself before, instead relying on backups to removable disks. This time I want to do everything properly, and a measure of disk redundancy is required so I guess we will be going for RAID 1.
I'm looking at this [URL].. server which comes with an Intel ICH10R RAID controller on board, and also has an option to add a 3ware 9650SE-LP. The site says the Intel chipset is Windows only, so I guess the 3ware alternative is the way to go. The server also has two 3.5" hot swap drive bays. Could anybody advise me if the 3ware card is a good choice for use with Debian? Also, how can I monitor the health of the drives with standard Debian tools out of the repos? Any other RAID tips are also interesting for me.
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May 24, 2010
I want to create a new LDAP database.
Part of the new configuration is
Code:
dn: olcDatabase={1}hdb,cn=config
objectClass: olcDatabaseConfig
objectClass: olcHdbConfig
olcDatabase: {1}hdb
[Code].....
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Jun 8, 2010
I have this group "cn=admins,ou=groups,dc=home,dc=com" And I've configured slapd in the new way so I'm not using slapd.conf (I think). First I thought about just modifying the files at /etc/ldap/cn=config/....... but that didn't work. How do I make that group into an admin-group with all the rights ?
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Nov 15, 2010
There are several parts of problems in my question.
1. Install openLDAP and authenticate clients
2. Simple way to authenticate Ubuntu clients (just like Windows simple domain model, but Linux)
Part 1 What I have done: I have been working on openLDAP for the past 4 weeks. There is a lot of information on LDAP and I have read a lot of it There are several guides out there for openLDAP installation on Ubuntu, and I have tried many of them, and reinstalled the server between tests.
[Code]...
Part 2 Simple way to authenticate Ubuntu clients (just like Windows simple domain model, but Linux)
I have tried to find something similar to Windows client login, but haven't found anything that works. I just need to be pointed to somewhere to read about the authentication model in Linux. I can work out my from there. It must be something very simple I am missing, because when I read som echapters in The Ubunutu Bible, I can't find anything on it.
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Apr 5, 2011
I'm using openldap(slapd) to store user account..But how can i ensure that each UserID can be only login on one machine at any one time?
I'm using ubuntu for both client and server..
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May 18, 2010
I'm trying to set up an OpenLDAP server on a clean install of 10.04 server (AMD64). Following the server guide [URL] I get down to the "Setting up ACL" step:
$ ldapsearch -xLLL -b cn=config -D cn=admin,cn=config -W oldDatabase=hdb oldAccess
This command fails with "ldap_bind: Invalid credentials (49)"
When I replace the dn with what it seems like it should be:
$ ldapsearch -xLLL -b cn=config -D cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com -W oldDatabase=hdb oldAccess
I get "No such object (32)"
I have a feeling this is because 10.04 no longer asks you for the admin username and password during the initial debconf (nor does dpkg-reconfigure).
I can continue through the guide using this form of the commands (which were used earlier in the Guide):
$ sudo ldapsearch -Y EXTERNAL -H ldapi:/// -b cn=config olcDatabase=hdb olcAccess
But I'm a little concerned that I'm not able to properly use the admin user to make LDAP changes to the configuration. It also seems like the Server Guide ought to use the 'sudo ... -Y EXTERNAL' form of the commands throughout if cn=admin,cn=config isn't going to work.
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May 24, 2010
I have slapd-server running but it seems to refuse connections in a very odd way. Wireshark shows that everytime JavaEE-client tries to connect, only 2 packages are sent. As I understand, in tcp/ip protocol, the first is just "hello, who's there". The last is just a message consisting of ACK and RST. I think RST means "we're done". At this point I don't think any credentials are checked so I don't know what could be wrong
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Jun 30, 2010
I'm trying to follow the OpenLDAP docs that are part of the Ubuntu 10.04 Server Guide, listed here:
I get about halfway through, to this command:
sudo ldapadd -x -D cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com -W -f frontend.example.com.ldif
When it asks me to "Enter LDAP Password:" and nothing I have tried works. I thought it might have been "olcRootPW: secret" set in the backend file in the step before, but that isn't working.
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Apr 12, 2011
I recently followed a tutorial on how to get OpenLDAP running with Samba on Lucid. It worked pretty well.Here's my very frustrating problem with it. For the first 5 - 10 minutes after rebooting, password handling (possibly PAM?) is hosed, including for users in LDAP authenticating via Samba.In fact, I think the only reason I can SSH into the machine during that window is because I happen to have certificate authentication enabled and my client uses that.When I try to do a sudo command after logging in, though, and have to enter the password, it hangs. I've searched logs and haven't come up with much.I *think* it's related to this bug, but I'm not sure.And here's what's killing me ... it's not easy for me to figure out how to ensure that slapd starts before smbd and rsyslog (I read somewhere else that it needs to start before that for some reason) b/c most of the jobs are upstart jobs, but slapd is not.By default it runs at S19 in rc2.d, and I've tried manually lowering that as far as S05 or S07, but I'm still having trouble.
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Apr 17, 2011
I work for a college with many departments. I'd like to just deploy one LDAP/krb5 server (plus slave replicas) to authenticate all users in all departmentsIs it possible to do this?The proposed DNs for the departments matches what is done for NIS now.If anyone has any pointers or URLs that describe how to properly do this.
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Apr 28, 2011
I have set up an OpenLDAP server to use as an common address book for my users.
I have all the addresses in a spreadsheet.
Is there a easy way to get this data into LDAP?
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Jun 8, 2009
I am planning to deploy an OpenLDAP server in my LAN for basic authentication, but I have no idea how to do it. I would like to know how to configure an OpenLDAP Server, and I would also like to know about knowledge resources, if any.
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Nov 30, 2009
After installing F11, I installed OpenLdap with the command "yum -y install openldap*" And added the password obtained through the command "slappasswd -s password -h {MD5}" into /etc/openldap/slapd.conf. Also, I specified the domain information within the file on "suffix" and "rootdn". I also modified the domain name in both /etc/openldap/ldap.conf and /etc/ldap.conf. I copied the Copied the /usr/share/doc/openldap-servers-2.4.15/DB_CONFIG.example to /var/lib/ldap/DB_CONFIG. Then started the server with the command /etc/rc.d/init.d/ldap start I then was able to create and delete OU's and CN's with the help of ldapadd and ldapdelete. I also created PERSON records using the base.ldif file with the content ;
dn: cn=user1, ou=domain, dc=example, dc=com
objectClass: person
cn: user1
sn: user1
Everything is OK until I try to add a person with an email address in the "mail" attribute. The error message is ;
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adding new entry "cn=user1, ou=domain, dc=example, dc=com
ldap_add: Object class violation (65)
additional info: attribute 'mail' not allowed
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This error message is appearing also with "uid" attribute. I have searched some forums and found some suggestions to include the line
"include /etc/openldap/schema/inetorgperson.scheme" in the file /etcopenldap/slapd.conf, which is already in.
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Aug 27, 2011
A time ago I've been trying to implement a PDC linux server with Samba and Openldap for centralized authentication for windows and linux clients, but I can NOT get it. So I read somewhere that there is another option called Directory Server and maybe that is possible to do. According to your experience do you recommend any 'how to' or 'tutorial' that will permit implement a PDC server for authenticating and sharing files and printers for windows and linux clients?
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Jun 29, 2009
I have been using OpenLDAP 2.4 with OpenSuse 11 without any issues but I now want to configure replication and can't see how it's done . The OpenLDAP 2.4 admin guide refers to the slapd.conf configuration file but this is not used by YaST.
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May 9, 2009
I am new to using OpenLDAP on OpenSUSE with the yast configure tool. I have used Openldap on Fedora before and there was a slapd.conf file that I could modify. It appears that the yast does something different. Anyway I need to find out what the rootdn password is, but I cannot find it since there is no slapd.conf file.
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Aug 12, 2009
I am attempting to setup a network to network VPN tunnel between our main office and a temporary location. This location need full VPN access back to the main office's network.Anyhow we have spent about 3 solid days attempting to make this work without any great success. Here is our network scheme for these two devices.
Network A (Main Office) (OpenBSD using isakmpd)
Network: 172.16.8.0/24
External IP: 1.1.1.1 (obviously not the real IP)[code].....
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May 21, 2010
I've setup an openldap server, and am trying to add .ldif files to the database.
I am constantly getting the following error, no matter what I do:
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Apr 2, 2010
I have installed a linux server in my office to run 16 machines. Its main use will be a internal mail server but will be also running websites.
I have installed Ubuntu 9.10 server x64 and have got apache running.
I am looking for the simplest more robust solution for smtp, pop3 and imap. I have only ever used qmail before and found it a pain to configure and its getting old so I though I should probably try something new. I have not much experience with running pop3 or imap on linux so would love a suggestion on that.
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