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UNIX/Windows Integration Jon Dowland ISS UNIX team
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Overview Introduction –UNIX team –UNIX services About Integration Roadmap
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/intro/team WITUNIX
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/intro/services: platform; infrastructure; end-user
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/intro/services/platform them us
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/intro/services/infrastructure Mail hubs File servers Print servers
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/intro/services/end-user lists.ncl.ac.uk Cyrus mail service version control service time share systems …
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Applying for a UNIX account Not automatic Fill out a form Separate password Separate file storage
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/intro/services/example
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/integration/challenges Authentication User metadata File storage
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/integration/authentication UNIX: Network Information Service Windows: Active Directory
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/integration/metadata njd33DFdfg%^SfgDFDF3301719100 Jonathan. Dowland /home/ucs/033/njd33/bin/csh
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/integration/filestorage UNIX: NFS issfs2:home/ucs/033/njd33 Windows: SMB/CIFS //tower3/home13/njd33
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/roadmap
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/roadmap/authentication One account store Active Directory –Largest –Web single sign-on
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/roadmap/authentication Secure binding UNIX account optional –Simplify procedure either/or grace period
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/roadmap/authentication/protocols Kerberos LDAP
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/roadmap/metadata AD 2003 schema changes –Includes UNIX uid/guid attributes Auto-populate fields
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/roadmap/filestore Windows file servers no good for UNIX –Symlinks –Allowed characters NFS no good for windows –Same problems as UNIX
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/roadmap/filestore Samba? –potential scaling issues AFS –Kerberos infrastructure Not this time
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Summary
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Summary Disparate systems bad
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Summary Integration good
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Summary Disparate systems bad Integration good Integration not that hard anymore
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Summary Disparate systems bad Integration good Integration not that hard anymore One step at a time
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Questions / Further info jon.dowland@ncl.ac.uk http://www.ncl.ac.uk/iss/unix/ https://lists.ncl.ac.uk/wws/info/ad-unix-project
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