worst Linux moment

[Madison Kelly]

I was reading this and I again thought about how I want to build a set 
of apps to offer network services to mixed clients. EB talked about how 
everything was server-side and under MS clients I know that I can do 
that (and have) with Samba via roaming profiles and such. I am still at 
a bit of a loss though about how I can/should go about duplicating the 
same thing for Linux clients and, ideally, for mixed clients.

I have been trying over and over to get my head around OpenLDAP in the 
hopes of using it for central authentication of all clients and then 
mounting a user's home off on NFS mounts but I just can't seem to figure 
out how to do despite reading how-tos. I've got a much better 
understanding of LDAP and NFS then I used to but I can't seem to pull it 
all together to make it happen.

I have torn apart and am about to rebuild by test network yet again and 
I am hoping that some people here who have actually implemented 
centralized networking could let me know what they use and, if possible, 
how.

Thanks! (I don't want to be an admin you guys read about after making 
some momentus flub!)

Madison

Noah John Gellner wrote:
> When I first started using Linux I had no background in Unix. I used to
> mount my windows 3.x partition to allow easy sharing of files. For some
> reason or other I decided to 'uninstall' Slackware and so su'ed, cd'ed
> to / and executed rm -rf *. My linux partition was only around 60 megs
> so I couldn't figure out why the command was taking so long to execute.
> I soon gained a deeper conceptual understanding of mounted filesystems.
> 
> The unnuanced suggestion on the deleting CVS ... thread made me recall
> this sorry tale.


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