I'm really thinking that there is no easy answer to integrating the Mac "labs" on wireless with a Windows environment. Such deployments almost count on wired connections for speed and reliability.
And mixed with users that refuse to be trained it's a nightmare.
Kids love getting around policy at the time. But they don't want to learn about connecting to smb://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and copying files. They do, however, want to learn about magic proxies that let them play video games on school computers.
They don't care to learn the stuff they'd need to learn in order to get work done. That's boring.
Otherwise I'd have them mount the @#$% directory, save docs to it, and understand that if a file is large they copy and paste it to a local directory, edit it, then copy and paste it back to the remote share.
That would solve a lot of the problem as far as I'm concerned.
I don't know if it would kill network bandwidth or not, but rsyncing home dirs on the Mac with a user's home directory on <server>...wonder how bad that would be if it ran every five to ten minutes?
The issue is "We need a way to get Macs to work with AD (authentication seems to work for the most part) so that kids can use Windows and Macs with access to their home directories on a Windows-based NAS, without huge login/logoff times, or huge network congestion in either syncing or just trying to edit files."
@vinkovrsalovic: yes, I think our main problems lay in sync/editing. we need to be able to back up user files, but editing over the network introduces lag/pausing/disconnect issues.
Profiles are a Windows thing.
In OS X/Unix things Windows considers part of the profile are in the home directory.
Not for this, if it's what I think you're referring to. It might be something we attempted using when we had a worm on the network and needed to narrow down what machine was infected...it tells stats for AD logins, no?
The Windows laptops haven't had this kind of issue.
We get things like the iphoto libraries syncing with <name>.network.network.network, then <name>.network.network.network.network...so you have, say, a 10 meg iphoto lib, then 20, then 30...each time you log on and off.
Permission errors accessing home directory files. Sync errors on files.
But they can access them manually. Things like that.
One way to look at the questions that are asked here is: how far away is the asker from even comprehending the answer?
Our favorite kinds of questions are the ones where the asker just needs a little bit of help getting over a tiny hill. "I need to do X. I tried Y and Z. Z almost worked, but I g...
I know we're not supposed to have meta-tags and such, but it would be really useful if we had a way to aggregate the Canonical Q/As other than using favorites/bookmarks/constant-searching/etc. So when a dupe comes along it's quick and painless to mark it as a dupe of the Canonical Q/A.
@Zypher Comcast's must be the same system... When automatic activation didn't work (surprise considering it's Comcastic) it transferred me to California Residential Billing Support (I'm in MI). At least that lady knew how to transfer me to MI Support, though it was still Billing and not Technical Service.
We're having some connection issues during the business day, so rather than updating that often, I'd rather set the updates for a few hours apart (so it doesn't contribute to the problem)
The yum update is killing my internet connection (once it gets slow, it cascades down the list of mirrors, opening more and more connections, thereby sealing the fate of the connection)...
All I really need is a configuration management system... The rest I don't really need since I already have inventory and monitoring all setup (and since we're a mixed environment, the other two need to support both Win and Linux)
SpaceWalk does have some low key configuration management built in, but it's very, VERY basic. The newer version does implement cobbler, which let us combine two services.
Yeah, it's fine 99% of the time. But once it gets slow for anything (users downloading too much), once puppet fires it kills the whole thing (packetloss through the roof)
I've wiresharked the connection, and it's puppet that puts the nail in it. Once it fails the first time, it cascades down a list of mirrors quite fast...
@ircmaxell I would have puppet run however often is necessary for your environment. I kept the 30 minutes for a few reasons, but one of them being that local changes would get corrected in a timely fashion. Your yum updates were what I was really curious about.
As an example, I have my systems set to only update packages once per week.
Unless you need a specific version, that's what I would do. Then write out an update script that runs during an outage window.
And don't just do a blind 'yum -y update' since sometimes python or glibc versions change, and those updates need to go in a specific order: yum, glibc, all.
The move from 5.2->5.3 (I think) was a great example of that. Lots of installs got hosed because the updater didn't realize the consequences of a glibc change
@TomOConnor It can be real scary, unless you actually have a deployment schedule. You should really only have problems on the first run after you make changes to your tree
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@blsub6 Ah, yes. That problem. I bet if you run get-executionpolicy it'll return AllSigned or something. To run unsigned scripts, set-executionpolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned
I have found on the chat that if you do something in markdown (such as **) then it takes a moment to render properly. The window shows **Bold text** (with literal asterisks) but then renders bold properly after a few seconds.
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Turns out when I did all that work last week I forgot to put in all of the new paths into the zoning config, so we still had some single-points-of-failure. :P. Better a known (stupid) mistake than an unknown mysterious one.
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I liked this review I was sadly disappointed in discovering that this product is offered in a 10-pack, and a 15-pack, yet NOTHING in between. I needed a 12.5-pack since one of my three children is really a just step-child, and she needs to know that.
you don't so much tell it NOT to listen to ports as specify what ones you DO want it to listen to. What that will be is the default setting, port 80 (default HTTP port) on ANY IP address you go on to configure
Thanks Robert. I have all websites configured to listen to a different IP address (I have three static IP addresses). I have even stopped IIS but IIS still seems to be listening on several ports.
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