[Samba] OT: Work offer - SAMBA consultant required in Sydney, Australia.

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 12:16, Dan Horth wrote:
> Hi all - sorry for the off-topic posting - just that the list of consultants on the samba site is horrendously out of date! I thought that this would be the best place for me to find suitable resources...
> 
> firstly I would like to say thanks a million to all the samba team for your
> ongoing efforts and great product. I just wish I had more time to experiment with it!
> 
> We have the startings of a good network setup here but I'm getting snowed under 
> with other work. I'm looking for interested parties able to provide me with high 
> level linux consultancy services to complete our setup, specifically:
> 
> - SAMBA 3.0 BDC configuration tieing in to existing Win2K AD PDC 
> over CIPE VPN (ideally also Win2K AD PDC config / optimisation to suit)

This really isn't particularly practical at this stage.  We can migrate
a DC, but we don't currently have the tools for a real BDC, and it is an
NT4-level one at best.  Our migration code misses a lot of stuff, the
clients will expect to 'just work' if we appear to be a BDC, even if we
sync often enough (work is being done on at least managing that part).

> - Configuration of group policies / profiles using SAMBA BDC / Win2K AD PDC

We do not support group policies.

> - Joining Win2K Workstations and WinXP Pro laptops to BDC

Well, you never join anything to a BDC.  The point of a BDC is that it
is read-only.

> - Setup backup solutions for Win2K Desktops, XP Pro Laptops, using linux 
> tools on the SAMBA BDC

One of the things to watch out with here is that unix tools don't do a
spectacular job of backing up windows, particularly things like ACLs and
ownerships.  Just keep this in mind when you decide what compromises to
make.

> and secondarily (ongoing work):
> 
> - IPTABLES / CIPE Network setup / optimisation
> - implementation of direct dial-in PSTN failover backup to CIPE VPN.
> - other linux server admin consulting, including qmail, apache, bind, etc.
> 
> The network in question is relatively small (8 W2K Workstations, 1 Win2K Pro server, 
> 1 RH9 Internet server, 1 RH9 firewall at main site, 7 W2K Workstations, 2 WXP laptops, 
> 1 RH9 file server, 1 RH9 Firewall at remote site)

Sounds like your setup (trying to implement both AD and Samba) is rather
over-complex for this size network.  Pick one, and use it.

Andrew Bartlett
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Andrew Bartlett                                 abartlet at pcug.org.au
Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team  abartlet at samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College   abartlet at hawkerc.net
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