[Discuss] Linux box for under $20? TRENDnet

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

Windows has a much different authentication than does Linux/Unix.
WRT: Clocks on VMWare. VMWare has a number of settings for clock
synchronization. I have not looked into this for a while, but AFAIK, you
can synchronize with the host, but by default there is no synch. I think
this setting is per-VM. All of my VMs run NTP against a host on our
intranet.

On 11/12/2011 11:09 AM, John Abreau wrote:
> When I was at Zuken, I set up Kerberos on several of the CentOS
> servers to authenticate against Active Directory. It took a few tries
> to work out the details, but once I figured it out, it worked well
> except when the clocks drifted too far apart. Of course I set it
> to also allow locally-defined logins, so I could still get admin access
> if AD was down.
>
> In practice the clock drift was only an issue for the two servers that
> ran under vmware-server. For those I set up an hourly cron job to
> force a sync using rdate. Ugly, but it got the job done.
>
> One thing I found disappointing was that Windows assigned all the
> uids and gids; I was unable to configure Windows to allow me to
> assign my own uids, in order to match what was already in use on
> the Linux servers.
>
> Alas, I kept all my notes on the procedure in the Zuken wiki, which
> I no longer have access to. So I'll have to figure it out all over again
> next time I need to authenticate against AD.
>
>


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