I should totally put a comma in that headline… 🙂
Anyhow, I just wanted to write a quick update on my new server tales. I started setting up the directory – any Linux freak yapping on about LDAP should try a real commercial solution for that; it’s so much nicer – and shortly after I got a message on my screen saying that the administrator had created an account for me on coherent (that’s the name, I’ve given the machine). I had not logged out from my machine or anything – it just associated my local machine account name (michael) with the one created in the directory, and – bam – I was connected after inputting the password I set in the directory.
Not only did it automatically set up the account, it also set up calendars, my address book and the e-mail box I had associated with the account – all automatically. After that, it synchronized everything via MobileMe to my laptop (which is sort of a second class citizen as I only use that for work), and this is in fact the first time I noticed I had to set up something, because it asked me for a password to the new-found mailbox. Se, that’s how server administration should be. Linux, go home and shoot yourself!
