>>> On 6/27/2006 at 7:09 am, in message <8d71b5680606270709y361f344fmf037ec69f729bda0 at mail.gmail.com>, miedward at gmail.com wrote: > Hello Luigi, > > I recently set up a system like the one you describe (ours works with > XP, OSX, Linux, and Solaris) and after researching I decided to go > with OpenLDAP and Samba. I personally never found a seamless > comercial solution I was happy with and at least with the open source > tools you weren't dealing with yet another black box. Samba + OpenLDAP last time I checked was very difficult to implement with little management tools .. some sort of arcane art ! One of the Samba developers during a a Samba tutorials actually showed us how complicated this is. Is your solution using certificates and SSL ? Someone suggested using Mac OS X, did you look into that ? > > Since you asked on this list, were you looking for a solution that is > going to be scalable to a large cluster, or is this just for your > servers and workstations? > I need a solution scalable to a 64 node cluster and maybe more even though I think 2 LDAP/AD/eDirectory/ would suffice. The solution needs to be also easy to manage since personnel is scarce. Thanks, Luigi-- > Mike Edwards > UTSA/UTHSCSA Joint Computational Biology Facility > > On 6/26/06, Joe Landman <landman at scalableinformatics.com> wrote: >> Hi Luigi >> >> Luigi Manna wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I am new on the list but not new with Bioclusters. I am trying to >> > setup an authentication system for our 64 node cluster that integrates >> > with our web services (all Apache/PHP based) and our desktop management >> > (mix of XP, Mac OS X and Linux). At the moment there's no authentication >> > platform for any of these (other then local files). >> >> Hmmm... >> >> > Is there a >> > commercial solution that you might recommend that integrates >> > authentication among all these plaforms ? I checked on Vintela and >> > Novell but I wanted to know what other people are doing. I could just >> > run a secure OpenLDAP but its management tools leave much to be >> > desidered and our management prefers commercial tools for businees >> > continuity purposes. >> >> There are a variety of directory server products out there. Fedora >> Directory Server is available from RedHat. LDAP with a nice java-ish >> user interface. Sun has a directory server available, as do Novell, and >> many others, including Microsoft. Linux,OSX,XP can/should be able to >> integrate with all of these. There are others as well. >> >> Simply depends upon how hard you want to work, how much you want to >> spend on fancy tools. >> >> > >> > Any ideas ? Thanks much, >> > >> > Luigi-- >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Bioclusters maillist - Bioclusters at bioinformatics.org >> > https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bioclusters >> >> -- >> Joseph Landman, Ph.D >> Founder and CEO >> Scalable Informatics LLC, >> email: landman at scalableinformatics.com >> web : http://www.scalableinformatics.com >> phone: +1 734 786 8423 >> fax : +1 734 786 8452 or +1 866 888 3112 >> cell : +1 734 612 4615 >> _______________________________________________ >> Bioclusters maillist - Bioclusters at bioinformatics.org >> https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bioclusters >> > _______________________________________________ > Bioclusters maillist - Bioclusters at bioinformatics.org > https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bioclusters