![]() I chose to use NFS for my setup for a few reasons. This has been the Unix way of sharing filesystems with other computers. AFP is also much more proprietary and requires a bit of maneuvering to support it on a Linux server. It is still the “native” file sharing protocol in Mac OS, but Macs also speak NFS natively. Macs didn’t do SMB/CIFS and Windows computers didn’t do AFP and that was that. Once upon a time, the Apple Filetalk Protocol was the only way you could share file between Macs.Apple computers can mount SMB/CIFS shares, but it is not its native file sharing protocol. This is the protocol that Windows servers use to share files with other Windows servers. This is short for the Server Message Block of Common Internet File System, which are two names for the same thing.So let’s get on with it.įirst let’s explain the pieces/parts that go into this whole process, and the terminology that I’ll be using If you want centralized home directories and logins, this is the only way you’re going to do it without buying a Mac OS server. I also thought I could do this without LDAP and without automounter, but trust me when I say that this is it. ldif files and the ldapadd command, then you’re onto something. (It’s OK if you don’t know what these files are yet, I’m just trying to illustrate my point.) Guess what? nf is gone! If a web page starts talking about the slapd.d directory, or importing schemas by using. For example, the most common step you’ll find out there is to copy the apple.schema file to /etc/ldap/schema, then add “ include /etc/ldap/schema/apple.schema” to your nf file. If you start seeing references to a nf file, then you’re looking at docs that won’t help you at all. Important note: Ubuntu really updated it’s LDAP & automounter setup sometime recently, so a lot of the web pages you find (including some on Ubuntu’s web site) will be flat out wrong. Otherwise this page will get way too big. Instead of doing this all in one web page, I’m going to put each major set of steps in its own web page and link to it. But this works to your advantage, because I’m going to fill in all the blanks because I’m not going to assume that you know all this stuff either. ![]() In fact, I’m very new to Macs and I didn’t know SQUAT about LDAP or automounter prior to starting this project. I couldn’t have done it without you.įor those of you that are new to my blog let me say this right now: I am not an LDAP, automounter/autofs, MacOS, or Linux expert. Many thanks to all those web pages out there (referenced in this procedure where appropriate), and to my new Twitter buddies & for their help in figuring this all out. So I’m hoping that this set of web pages will keep some poor soul from having to do the same. What should have taken me an evening took about a week of hand wringing, head banging, and coffee slamming. They’re either outdated, not outdated but wrong, assume you know something that you don’t, or just non-existent. In addition, I spent way too much effort trying to do this, and the docs that are out there are collectively a mess. So that’s what this has to do with backup. without having to re-enter them when I re-image a box. I also want to be able to centrally maintain user files, passwords, etc. I want all those files in a central place - mainly my Ubuntu 9.10 Linux server. I’d like the Macs to just be images and not not have any files that I need to back up on them. I have three Macs (including one MacBook) at home and everyone in my family logs into each one of them. Backup blog may be wondering what this has to do with backup, so let me get that out of the way right now.
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