NCSU OIT Integration Services

How to find a printer.

Do you need to be an admin?

When do you authenticate to print on a standalone machine?

These are just my raw notes from installing print00.

The lastest locally built samba is in /afs/bp.ncsu.edu/project/realmlinux/yum/MICROSYS/5Server/

You can point yum to this with a config file in /etc/yum.repos.d containing

[oit-iso-shs]
name=OIT ex-Microsystems Locker
baseurl=http://install.linux.ncsu.edu/pub/yum/MICROSYS/5Server/$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

Install everything with

sudo yum install samba samba-client samba-doc

Sigh. Novell has releasd Service Pack #5 for Client-32 4.91

http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=qmMAWSRy5q4~

We'll need to test this against our NDPS stuff to see if it fixes anything.

If you read way far down in the list of things addressed, it does mention

Ndppnt.dll from 4.91 SP4 breaks NDPS printer installs

Last week nds02ps crashed a bit, and had trouble crashing on automatic restart.  I think the issue was that when the ndps broker and manager were loading too soon after startup, we ran out of memory or cpu or karma and the box would crash.

 I've added the command DELAY 120 just before loading the broker/manager, so we should wait 2 full minutes after a reboot to actually start the print system.  Hopefully, this delay will help the box survive a reboot.

Boo hoo.

I was hoping that we could join a Dell Remote Access Card (DRAC) to an AD domain using the existing credentials and the web interface.  Alas!  It looks like we'll need to reboot the hosts in order to configure the DRACs during POST.

Debbie and I spent some time this afternoon trying to quantify what was broken between ACSAD and UNITY.AD.

What we tested was creating a domain local group, and then adding members to that group from the other domain.  In all cases, we could browse and add from either domain without difficulties, but when we tried to view the members of the group, we got a "the other domain may be down" error after a long delay.

We've extended the Unity.ad schema to support the older DRAC4 series out of band management cards, and will shortly do the same for ILO cards. Info about how they're used can be found in an earlier blog post.

The article that describes how to setup a DRAC5 card so that it doesn't need an AD schema extension can be found

http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps3q07-20070343-Babu-OE.pdf

We do have older DRACS, so the info about the schema extensions for earlier DRACS can be found

http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q04-20040123-McGary.pdf

Muhahaha.  Out evil plans take a step forward with the creation of a Subversion Repository.

 The URL is https://svn.unity.ncsu.edu/svn/shs-general/

It's private, so you must log in with your Unity ID, and be one of the cool shs-general kids.