Dear fellow H-T members, The Vipassana Meditation Center (www.dhara.dhamma.org) is a small non-profit in Shelburne. We need help from a linux expert with Ubuntu and NIS / NFS experience. I am a member of the all-volunteer technology committee. The organization has no IT staff. We run a linux server and about a dozen linux desktops, plus some linux laptops. Our current setup: an old (ca 2006) Dell server running Ubuntu 10.04; desktops are newer hardware running Mint. The users authenticate via NIS to the server, and their profiles (home directories) are mounted via NFS. All files are on the server; no user files are on the desktops or laptops. Our goal: we purchased a newer (used) Dell server in Feb 2016, and initially installed Ubuntu 14.04. We installed all the same packages as the old server; and migrated all the configurations and data. When we try to login from the desktops, we have a variety of issues: either cannot authenticate, or cannot find home directories, or don't have write permissions, etc. Many long hours of troubleshooting, googling, experimenting have yielded no good results. Later last year we upgraded the new server to Ubuntu 16.04, but the problems persist. We understand that NIS is becoming increasingly uncommon, and investigated switching to LDAP; but it seemed to be a huge amount of work. If there are other authentication protocols we could use, which are reasonable-easy to convert to, we would be open to this. Likewise, if we need to completely rebuild our new server, that would be fine. The steps (packages, configurations, data, etc.) are fairly well-documented. We're seeking someone with sufficient expertise and time to help us. Given that the work involves testing authentication and file access between desktops and the server, it would likely need to be performed onsite in Shelburne. If you are experienced, interested, and available, please reply to me privately (off-list) with some information about your skills and background, rates, availability, and contact information. Thanks much ! Jeremy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20170304/db57a57d/attachment.html