>From: "Kwan Lowe" <kwan@digitalhermit.com>
>Reply-To: slug@nks.net
>To: slug@nks.net
>Subject: RE: [SLUG] LAN
>Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 11:09:33 -0400 (EDT)
>
><snip>
>
>Some things I'm doing in my home office include:
>LDAP based logins and home directories (environment follows you)
>LDAP addressbook for email clients
>Web based email via squirrelmail
>Conference/monitor via gnomemeeting
>Multiplayer games
>
>The web server runs the external DNS. The file server is a backup DNS and
>runs
>internal DNS via bind views. One very useful fileserver function is to
>allow all
>machines to watch video. I use DVDRip to transcode all my DVDs to hard
>disk. When
>it's done, I can watch video over the wireless network or on any connected
>PC. The
>same applies to my MP3 collection.
>
>Samba on the file server is configured with a large export share containing
>video
>and audio and some public docs. It also mounts a private share containing
>user
>files. This was by far the most useful feature since it allowed me to
>easily backup
>all files. Previously, user files were scattered amongst the dozen or so
>PCs around
>the house and duplicate files were rampant, not to mention stuff that never
>got
>backed up. Backups are to DVDs (at less than a 20 cents for 4.7 Gig it was
>the best
>solution).
>
>The LDAP stuff is also useful. I generally have half a dozen or so VMWare
>instances
>running at any one time for customers. Most of them are dormant and used
>for
>testing. Others are used to build customer packages, test scripts, etc..
>The images
>are identical to what they run in production (they use the images as
>production in a
>virtual environment). Without LDAP the authentication would be a nightmare
>since it
>would be close to 100 environments including my own.
>
Neat ideas! The media stuff sounds a little bandwidth hungry--especially
when it is competing with your other network services. What speed is your
network infrastructure and how does it handle the load? Have you discovered
any ways to use the bandwidth more efficiently?
-Jonathon
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