[ale] Linspire chairman thinks desktop Linux is futile

krwatson at cc.gatech.edu krwatson at cc.gatech.edu
Mon Jul 7 10:23:48 EDT 2008


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Ned
> Williams
> Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 09:59
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] Linspire chairman thinks desktop Linux is futile
>
> Have you messed around with winbind at all? I found it somewhat useful for
> working with AD and linux machines. Might make the authentication peice of
> the shared mountpoint stuff a little easier?
>
> Ned Williams
>

Ned,

We tried winbind and found that it was really flaky. It enumerates the entire forest, which is nice, but it overwhelms windbind and it stops working. The only fix was to remove the machine from the domain, add it back and it would authenticate for a while and then die. Then we had to remove from the machine from the domain, rinse and repeat....

keith


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Keith R. Watson                        Georgia Institute of Technology
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