A lot’s been going on at home lately, Candace and her brood are coming to live with me and my daughter. We’re doing piles of construction in the basement to get bedrooms built. We’re all excited and working hard to get stuff done this summer. More importantly though, it is now normal for there to be five computers in my living room (none of which are really meant for my use any more, but that’s beside the point). Any of six residents can be in the house at any given time. There are also cases where we might log in remotely: for email, SSH access or a couple other web applications that I run on one of the machines like a wiki and calendar. Then there’s Asterisk, which I haven’t had up lately but desperately want to get back online.
Background - Many to Many Too Many
Obviously we need to have some common file storage locations and control for access to those locations. So I’ve decided to look more seriously into setting up LDAP. Currently one of the machines dual boots Windows XP and OpenSuse 10.2. Another one (that I use for a Myth TV front end) runs OpenSuse 10.1. My desktop is full-time OpenSuse 10.2 for now, though I might be pressed to also install Windows Vista soon (resisting with all my might). Let’s see… that leaves the two laptops. They run Windows XP. Oh, I almost forgot about the old DOS box I put in the garage to run the CNC. I’ll not worry about it for the moment.
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