Hello.

I have a problem. My workplace has a simple network, which is basically a Red Hat box running DHCP & DNS etc.

It has been working for over a year perfectly for us. However one of the managers here wants to run a RIS server on the network.

He is insisting that the RIS server needs to be running on a Domain for it to work.

I don't mind if he has his RIS server running on the network, I just don't want it to become a MS backbone again, we have been there before and we had endless issues and reboots to make it work properly. I don't think we need a domain at all. We have been running fine on the linux backbone.

Can anyone suggest how I can get round this? Is there anyway I can get one of the linux boxes to act as some kind of 'domain controller' anyway? Or does anyone know if he can have that machine on the network without having to create an AD?

Any advice on this would be great!!!

Thanks alot.

Regs
Craig

Found this off a google link:

"A RIS Server needs to be authorized in the Active Directory. Also, note that an RIS Server gets authorized as a DHCP server, using the DHCP administrative tool. Therefore, DHCP and RIS are logically inseparable."

I think your outta luck but it is possibly to have it running, with AD and as a Domain Controller.. but not have it affect the other machines, they'd just have to join the domain but you wouldn't have to have them get DHCP from the server, etc...

At work, the Windows Admin has a RIS server with our existing Windows Domain controller w/Active Directory but we still serve out IP's via our Linux server.. etc.

I wouldn't know any other way around it, I just know I don't blame you for not wanting it.. if ours affected our network, we'd make sure the Windows Admin doesn't have a job any more..

Why don't you "convince" him to use a product like Norton Ghost? No RIS Server is needed with that. Just a machine running Windows (it could be XP or 2000 does not have to be a server edition). The best part being, if you get Norton Ghost 8 you can then ghost server configurations for your Linux machines!

Have a good one.

Why would anyone want that?

Please read the earlier posts Mr Norton salesman.

Why are you resurrecting an 7 years old thread with an useless post?

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I'm sorry ...?


This is a public forum so I can post what I like.

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It's not useless to someone who is looking into PXE on Linux.

The comment is merely pointing out that "Norton Ghost" is probably not going to help solve the original poster's problem.

In my 20+ years in IT I have never heard anyone using "Norton Ghost" as a replacement for Linux PXE boot and thought it was a wise move.

I was also pointing out that caps_phisto seems like Symantec salesman, which is not beyond the realms of reality.

I could have put all that above text, but I was attempting to be concise and leaving it to the reader to be intelligent and research that for themselves.

This forum came as a high hit when I was googling for "RIS Linux" so it is obviously still current.

I'm sure if the guys at LQ thought it a bit stale they would have disabled/removed it.

But then, they are not trolling Micro$haft freaks who go round misleading newbies to Linux IT in to thinking it's too complicated for their simple little brains.

Telling them they are best remaining in the safe welcoming gluttonous land of propriety software.

Don't worry their tiny heads about learning real IT support.

Just keep telling your IT dept that buying the expensive upgrades makes sure the massive overpriced initial purchase isn't seen as a bad investment.

Theirs a good lad.