The easy way to Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, or LDAP

The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, or LDAP is the Linux version of Active Directory for Linux. Ferdora Core/Red Hat/CentOS has there version that is worth looking at, there Directory Servers make install and upkeep a lot easier for Admins that are looking to stay way from command line.
The way that the system works is by using a web driven interface to update and maintain the LDAP directory.

Key Features

• Multi-Master Replication, to provide fault tolerance and high write performance
• Scalability: thousands of operations per second, tens of thousands of concurrent users, tens of millions of entries, hundreds of gigabytes of data
• The codebase has been developed and deployed continuously by the same team for more than a decade
• Extensive documentation, including helpful Installation and Deployment guides
• Active Directory user and group synchronization
• Secure authentication and transport (SSLv3, TLSv1, and SASL)
• Support for LDAPv3
• On-line, zero downtime, LDAP-based update of schema, configuration, management and in-tree Access Control Information (ACIs)
• Graphical console for all facets of user, group, and server management

Here’s the link to the site for the Documentation and also the Installation information.
The install is really simple and the questions are much like the questions that you’d get from Active directory it self.

How to install Webmin on Ubuntu server

If you're looking for on easier way to manage your server then you can use webmin to remotely manage Linux servers. In this case I got a tutorial for installing it on Ubuntu server.

I would suggest to not allow traffice out side of your network to be able to get to webmin for security. So don't forget to block access to port 1000 from outside of the network, or the port that you set webmin too.

How to install Webmin

wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin_1.470_all.deb

Note: make shore that the version is up to date.
You can go to webmin.com and to the downloud area to get the up to date URL(version)

Now we have webmin_1.470_all.deb package you need to install using the following command

sudo dpkg -i webmin_1.470_all.deb

If your servercomplains that there is some library things does not find. Just run the following command

sudo apt- get install -f

You should now be able to login to Webmin at the URL https://localhost:10000/
You can also use the server name too.

How to test out Ubuntu Linux on your PC.

If you want to test out how Ubuntu Linux is going to run on your computer laptop or net book. Then here are two ways to test it out.

You can use Wubi installer to install it on your computer from windows and uninstall it from Windows without loosing any data from windows or harming any thing. This also works if you use Vista which in that case I really feel sorry for you.



The other way is to Virtualizes on Ubuntu box, this will let you test out the OS but it will not give you a good idea if any or all of you hard ware will work with it. I mostly use VirtualBox for doing that. It's one of the best and easiest to setup with out paying for software even if your looking at he windows version virtual pc ( it dos not like Linux).



Booth of the method to test out and run Ubuntu or any other Linux distribution on your computer will take up about 5 to 10 gig of hard drive space. So make shore that you have the space be for you install. If not then use on external or get one for this. The install for Ubuntu is really easy and it walks you throw setting up the OS.

My mom uses Ubuntu

For the last 5 years my mother has been using a computer that runs Ubuntu on it. She has not had a problem with the OS. Know mind you I had windows running on it before and I was always working on fixing problems with the OS.

The rezone for this is that windows makes things easy for people to change settings and configurations. Like my mother that has a tendency to reconfigure her network so that it's not working. But in Linux you can't make that change unless you have root access.

Now my mom just goes online for her email.

Easy linux for Small Business

I have been working on a tutorial on setting up a LAMP server I found this company that has a paid version of Linux for small business. This version has its own web admin control panel that is really easy to work with. Here take a look for your self at Collax. They even have a Demo.

Hello world....

Well yes I know its was a very cheese thing to name the article Hello world.. But I really could not help it. I wanted to do a site about how people that are computer savvy could get into Linux. I am still learning my self but I have a few friends that what to know more and share with others people.
My friends have put me up to getting things done in Linux rather then in windows. Like on of the articles that I am also writhing is about the Linux version of "Microsoft Home Server".