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Archive for July 9th, 2005

Farewell, Canberra

Jul 9

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My work in our nation’s capital is done — for now, anyway…

I’ve had an entertaining couple of months travelling to Canberra every week to work at one of the government departments there (obviously can’t say which one!).  As is usually the case with govenment projects though (apparently) the money stopped on June 30, so it’s all over.  There’s a good chance that something might go on in the new year — but hopefully there won’t be so much travel involved!

Veejoe goes LDAP

Jul 9

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We bit the bullet here at the new Ellendale data centre.  LDAP authentication!  Works like a bought one.

Coinciding with the relocation of the prime server from Rubicon DC to Ellendale DC, we’ve implemented LDAP authentication for Linux and Mac OS X clients.  There’s also automounted home directories to boot!  It went quite smoothly, all things considered.

Now will come the dreaded data reorganisation (there’s about 1.5TB of storage across all the Crossed Wires machines).  Also, I’ve been running Samba 3 for a while so there’s probably not much reason to keep putting off integrating the Windows boxes into LDAP as well…

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