EvilMarshmallow
August 5th, 2009, 09:58 AM
I'm in the process of buying a new home, and I want to create the "ultimate home network".
I have 3 machines currently: 2 desktop/workstation (1 to act as a media server, the other will be treated as a workstation) and a laptop. *All* are ubuntu. In fact, I'm not ever planning to join a Windows PC to my "domain".
I'm looking for something that is linux-ONLY that does the following: I want centralized management of user accounts, roaming profiles with consistent desktop themes/bookmarks/shortcuts/etc, seamless file sharing/remote mounting on login/streaming media from the server to a client, etc.
I *think* from what I've read that OpenLDAP is the way to go, but everything seems to be designed to work with Samba for a mixed environment. Is there a different/better way for pure linux environments to do this, or is Samba the standard for this sort of setup? Can you point me at any really good tutorials for setting this up in a clean, efficient manner?
I have 3 machines currently: 2 desktop/workstation (1 to act as a media server, the other will be treated as a workstation) and a laptop. *All* are ubuntu. In fact, I'm not ever planning to join a Windows PC to my "domain".
I'm looking for something that is linux-ONLY that does the following: I want centralized management of user accounts, roaming profiles with consistent desktop themes/bookmarks/shortcuts/etc, seamless file sharing/remote mounting on login/streaming media from the server to a client, etc.
I *think* from what I've read that OpenLDAP is the way to go, but everything seems to be designed to work with Samba for a mixed environment. Is there a different/better way for pure linux environments to do this, or is Samba the standard for this sort of setup? Can you point me at any really good tutorials for setting this up in a clean, efficient manner?