[Discuss] Linux box for under $20? TRENDnet

[abreauj at gmail.com (John Abreau)]

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.



On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 7:52 AM, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:
> On 11/11/2011 04:06 PM, edwardp at linuxmail.org wrote:
>>
>> I bought a new Netgear router earlier this year, couldn't get the time
>> zone out of -08:00 (Pacific), even after going through five "levels"
>> of "technical support" at Netgear. ?It was returned for a Cisco.
>>
>>
>> Jim Gasek wrote:
>>> I love the $15 refurb netgear wireless routers.
>>> Automatically download latest firmware.
>>> Automatically enforce security/encryption.
>>>
>>> There were at least 3 choices under $20.
>>>
>>
> I have never had a netgear router, but I have had many other Netgear
> products including 3 24 port GS24TS switches and a ReadyNAS 3100 and
> have had zero trouble. The ReadyNAS was somewhat complicated because I
> wanted to use it primarily as an NFS server, but also as a CIFS server.
> In the Boston office we use different user names/passwords than our
> Windows systems. ?The complexity is that I had to maintain a separate
> /etc/passwd for ReadyNAS because I needed to use the Windows user names
> with the Linux UIDs, we have 3 different name/password combinations but
> the tradeoff is that (1) we don't have to expire passwords, (2) I can
> use gaf :-), and (3) we are not tied to the corporate network, so if
> Internet is down or if Toronto is down, we are still 100% operational.
> At one time I was thinking of wring a password coordination system
> (probably in Python) because people don't change their Linux passwords
> often, it is not necessary. But even a password coordination system
> would work easily since you (1) create a map of different user names
> (about 3 or 4), Locate the appropriate line in /etc/shadow on the
> master, and simply locate the appropriate name on ReadyNAS, and plug the
> line into /etc/shadow.
>
> I've also had Netgear NIC cards. I screwed one up, called Netgear and
> easily RMA'd it.
>
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