[KLUG Members] NFS across platforms...and not!

Chris Goron members@kalamazoolinux.org
Wed, 31 Dec 2003 16:56:35 -0500


On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 16:21, Adam Williams wrote:
> > Yes, I believe NetInfo is Apple's own implementation of the Ldapv2
> > protocol if I'm not mistaken. They seem to have made an effort with
> > wrapping most of the system up in the directory thus eliminating most
> > of the /etc file system. 
> 
> Yep.  Hopin'-and-a-prayin' that someday a Linux distribution will take
> this similair "radical" step.  At least turn them into XML so things
> like yast or gnome-setup tools have some schema-aware backend so nifty
> gui configuration tools can wholesale trash the configuration of a
> service.
Absolutely, I think this will change over time, it almost has to. It's
nice to see the distros are including ldap support in most of the
compiled app binaries now. Maybe I'm just getting old and lazy but
maintaining my own binaries just isn't that appealing anymore.
 
> 
> Try writing a script to automatically edit something like smb.conf? 
> Just WAY to hard.  If smb.conf was an LDAP object (or ou more likely) or
> at least an XML file this would be trivial to add/remove shares, etc...
> from a running server automatically.
> 
squid.conf is my favorite, yikes.

> Not holding my breath - still to many TEXT FILES RULEZ!! people in the
> Linux camp.
> 
> > I would wager one could incorporate their nfs exports in Openldap,
> > I've never checked but I manage my autofs mount points in Openldap.
> 
> automounts from Max OS/X clients or from LINUX/UNIX clients?

Linux.


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