TCLUG, Planning on vacation next week. Usually I can get wifi internet access for my laptop. How can I share this access to my wife's IPad??? She has a USB cable for it??? Any thoughts that would be simple??? Using Ubuntu 11.04. Tom Thomas Rieff GreenCare 1717 3rd Avenue Mankato, MN 56001 (507) 344-8314 Office (507) 344-8316 Fax (507) 381-0660 Cell ----- Original Message ----- From: tclug-list-request at mn-linux.org To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 12:00:01 PM Subject: tclug-list Digest, Vol 86, Issue 23 Send tclug-list mailing list submissions to tclug-list at mn-linux.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to tclug-list-request at mn-linux.org You can reach the person managing the list at tclug-list-owner at mn-linux.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of tclug-list digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Linux network for local library? (Olwe Bottorff) 2. Re: Linux network for local library? (Jeremy Olexa) 3. Re: Linux network for local library? (Andrew S. Zbikowski) 4. Re: Tips on meshing BIND9 with corporate AD DNS (Andrew S. Zbikowski) 5. Re: Tips on meshing BIND9 with corporate AD DNS (Ryan Coleman) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 19:04:48 -0800 (PST) From: Olwe Bottorff <galanolwe at yahoo.com> To: TCLUG Mailing List <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Linux network for local library? Message-ID: <1330311888.39865.YahooMailNeo at web161603.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi there, I didn't see any other responses to your question which leads me to believe that perhaps nobody else really understood what exactly you're trying to do. If you want to clarify maybe we can all come up with something. I'm just wanting to create a server that can handle many linux accounts (desktop, storage, customizations, even ~/homedir software installs). As it is now, we have 4 MSWindows computers with no login, of course. I'd like to convert at least those 4 to Linux clients (thin, virtual, fat, whatever, bootable pen drive). Eventually I'd like to have this server host accounts for anyone in the community who wants one. So far nothing different than any common linux network. The interesting question I had was, Can such a server actually be hosted in a cloud service, or are speeds not adequate for that sort of thing? Olwe GM,MN PS: We're getting all our winter snow in one batch! On Thu, 23 Feb 2012, Olwe Bottorff wrote: > I'm suggesting to our local library that we build a Linux network for > patrons to have their own accounts. Now if someone wants Internet access > (browsing the Web), they can use one of our 4 MS PCs -- after signing in. > Yeah. . . . Question(s): Could a server for such a beast be run on a cloud > server (Amazon etc.), or should it be local? Also, is there a quick and easy > way for non-site users on MS/Apple to log in? Could some sort of bootable > stick drive be set up, or perhaps a cygwin install? I'm no sysadmin at all. > . . . > > Olwe > GM,CC,MN,NoShore > > -Yaron -- _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20120226/029840c3/attachment-0001.html> ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 21:46:19 -0600 From: Jeremy Olexa <jolexa at jolexa.net> To: TCLUG Mailing List <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Linux network for local library? Message-ID: <CAMxqorUi=rOkXhqzgnaArjxryGnGjodE9B4NHZdnP1dgZyu_YA at mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Olwe Bottorff <galanolwe at yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi there, > > I didn't see any other responses to your question which leads me to believe > that perhaps nobody else really understood what exactly you're trying to do. > If you want to clarify maybe we can all come up with something. > > I'm just wanting to create a server that can handle many linux accounts > (desktop, storage, customizations, even ~/homedir software installs). As it > is now, we have 4 MSWindows computers with no login, of course. I'd like to > convert at least those 4 to Linux clients (thin, virtual, fat, whatever, > bootable pen drive). Eventually I'd like to have this server host accounts > for anyone in the community who wants one. So far nothing different than any > common linux network. The interesting question I had was, Can such a server > actually be hosted in a cloud service, or are speeds not adequate for that > sort of thing? Well...I doubt that anyone would suggest a networked file system over the WAN. That is asking for all sorts of issues, speed being one issue, latency and a continuous connection being another. A $200 plug computer could handle 4 clients just fine and pay for itself by avoiding "cloud costs" pretty quickly, if you don't have the space (etc) for another computer. -Jeremy > > Olwe > GM,MN > > PS: We're getting all our winter snow in one batch! > > > On Thu, 23 Feb 2012, Olwe Bottorff wrote: > >> I'm suggesting to our local library that we build a Linux network for >> patrons to have their own accounts. Now if someone wants Internet access >> (browsing the Web), they can use one of our 4 MS PCs -- after signing in. >> Yeah. . . . Question(s): Could a server for such a beast be run on a cloud >> server (Amazon etc.), or should it be local? Also, is there a quick and >> easy >> way for non-site users on MS/Apple to log in? Could some sort of bootable >> stick drive be set up, or perhaps a cygwin install? I'm no sysadmin at >> all. >> . . . >> >> Olwe >> GM,CC,MN,NoShore >> >> > > > -Yaron > > -- > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 00:06:22 -0600 From: "Andrew S. Zbikowski" <andyzib at gmail.com> To: TCLUG Mailing List <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Linux network for local library? Message-ID: <CAMh5oVqgwkOWFknDiSD1D7r3E0sajRgg0mfE8LXRLdBP8AK4tg at mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sounds like you're looking for something along the lines of Linux Terminal Server Project: http://www.ltsp.org. These days, a good i5 or i7 based machine could easily deal with a handful of clients. You could even send all your net traffic through Squid+SquidGuard if you had to deal with requirments for filtering on the same box. A simple rsync between your primary system and standby computer for redundancy, add a heartbeat program for automated failover. Toss in something like CrashPlan for offsite and onsite backup and all bases should be more or less covered. How do you want ot deal with accounts? Are you looking at local accounts, or did you want to do something more complex like LDAP, Active Directory, Open Directory, etc? Do you want users to actaully log into the system under a user, or do they only need to hit a web portal to authenticate? Should patrons be able to access USB flash drives attached to thin clients, or will any files created be stored on the server and only accessable through your system, or do you want to only have termporay files that are cleared when the user logs off? ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 00:16:25 -0600 From: "Andrew S. Zbikowski" <andyzib at gmail.com> To: TCLUG Mailing List <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Tips on meshing BIND9 with corporate AD DNS Message-ID: <CAMh5oVqvJRwHMK+bOiJQ03xCz0qNdmDdMw+VFT527N1Wsh3yNA at mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Never create a .local domain in DNS, Active Directory, whatever. The .local TLD is reserved for mDNS (Bonjour in the Apple world). If you ever have to introduce Macs and other Apple products into your enviorment you'll have so many fewer headaches if you don't use .local, and it's the right thing to do. Anyway, it's been many years since I integrated BIND and Active Directory, but it is doable. Your best bet is to keep things as simple as possible thorugh. For example, have your local BIND server use the AD DNS servers to resolve anything the BIND server doesn't know about. -- Andrew S. Zbikowski | http://andy.zibnet.us IT Outhouse Blog Thing | http://www.itouthouse.com ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 07:18:09 -0600 From: Ryan Coleman <ryanjcole at me.com> To: TCLUG Mailing List <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Tips on meshing BIND9 with corporate AD DNS Message-ID: <DE9B8FC5-7431-4DEF-9144-30F8620726CC at me.com> Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII On Feb 27, 2012, at 12:16 AM, Andrew S. Zbikowski wrote: > Never create a .local domain in DNS, Active Directory, whatever. The > .local TLD is reserved for mDNS (Bonjour in the Apple world). If you > ever have to introduce Macs and other Apple products into your > enviorment you'll have so many fewer headaches if you don't use > .local, and it's the right thing to do. No ****. It's not my network. He claims he inherited the disaster but doesn't want to spend the time to fix it. > Anyway, it's been many years since I integrated BIND and Active > Directory, but it is doable. Your best bet is to keep things as simple > as possible thorugh. For example, have your local BIND server use the > AD DNS servers to resolve anything the BIND server doesn't know about. I gave up on it and just made everything that wasn't DHCP a static definition in ADDNS. ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list End of tclug-list Digest, Vol 86, Issue 23 ****************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20120227/d1c37b96/attachment.html>