Conversion to Linux - part 2

[Nathan Cerny]

If you're looking to authenticate via active directory on login, do a google
search for LDAP integration, you'll find lots of information about it.  Most
corporate AD allows LDAP connections, so you should be able to use LDAP to
access your AD...and eventually transition away from AD into pure LDAP!



On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Jeffrey Watts <jeffrey.w.watts at gmail.com>wrote:

> There are several key differences, but most are under the hood.  To
> overgeneralize, Fedora is the more "high tech" distribution and Ubuntu is
> the more "user friendly" one, but as you can see, there's a reason I say
> "overgeneralize".  :)
>
> The most noticeable visible difference is the fact that Fedora uses the
> traditional Unix model of having a superuser account, whereas Ubuntu by
> default has a locked superuser account and requires the use of 'sudo'.
> Different philosophies, but you'll find the method Fedora uses to be far
> more common in the Unix world.  I believe Ubuntu is the only major Linux
> distribution to do things that way.
>
> As far as the Fedora 10 installer, you can get a command line only
> installer by typing "linux text" at the GRUB prompt.  If you don't see a
> prompt, hit Esc when you see the GRUB loading screen.  Let me know if that
> doesn't work and I'll check on it for you.  Been a while since I've done a
> text only, non-kickstart install.
>
> As far as the network settings go, do you have your default gateway set up
> properly?  If you can provide a 'netstat -nr' it may help a bit.
>
> I did a quick google, and came up with a good link about AD integration:
> http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_&_Active_Directory
>
> You may want to search Red Hat's and Fedora's sites for distribution
> specific instructions.  You probably want to research eventually
> transitioning to LDAP instead, however I wouldn't make that move until
> you're done with everything else.
>
> Jeffrey.
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Haworth, Michael A. <
> Michael_Haworth at pas-technologies.com> wrote:
>
>> OK, so I have Fedora 9 installed on a HP nc6910p laptop - installation
>> went smoothly and everything seems to be working correctly - but, when I try
>> to access the internet for updates, packages, or just browsing, I get no
>> response from anything. I have verified that the wireless is configured
>> correctly and connected. I can ping both the gateway and external (
>> google.com). lack of experience is leading me to nowhere right now...
>>
>> On the flip side - Loving the interface (Gnome) as it is what I am used to
>> - aside from the networking not working correctly there seem to be
>> (outwardly) very few differences between Fedora and Ubuntu (but they are
>> built from different distro's, correct?). If I were to show this to the
>> powers-that-be, they would dig it just as much. I do like that on install it
>> asked if I wanted to used Kerberos credentials for logins... so I am
>> guessing that I can use the existing AD credentials in Server 2003 to
>> authenticate sessions... might take a little work to figure out, but nothing
>> that can't be solved (once it understands that there is a network to talk
>> to).
>>
>> Tried the Fedora 10 Beta, but the GUI installer kept crashing after
>> partitioning and I could seem to find a text installer at this point - so I
>> will wait it out on that one...
>
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