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#5850: Home Network Center
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Written by nicholas541 the 27 Mar 08 at 17:52.
Category: Internet & Networking.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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Description
I know that a lot of families have several computers in their house. (eg. the office computer, the kid's computer, the parent's laptops) They want to easily be able to manage all of them at once, without going through all the complicated server setups. There should be something that easily enables home users to access all the computer's in the house so that they can install software or update them all at once, see logs of what users do (like websites they visit), check how full the hard drives are, run backups, check disk "health" and more things like those. It would let the parents manage everything at once on any of the computers. Then have it all integrated into a "Network Management" application.
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andruk wrote on the 27 Mar 08 at 21:59
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Take a look at Landscape. Home users are not the only one to need this.
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MakotoTheKnight wrote on the 28 Mar 08 at 01:25
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This is definitely a good idea. I'd probably suggest an enterprise-class package for things like schools or government with the same specs, but it'd be really nice for the home user to have something like this too.
Perhaps the ability to control the firewall [ufw] to restrict websites that you don't want your users to access on this network would be awesome, too.
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arbulus wrote on the 28 Mar 08 at 15:14
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So pretty much a home user version of something similar to Microsoft Active Directory and Group Policy Management.
I have read about Fedora Directory Services, an OpenLDAP management tool for networks. I've not tried it myself, but from what I've read, it seeks to be a replacement for MS Active Directory.
That is something that I believe is desperately needed. Geared mostly toward enterprise deployments, but if someone really wanted to do it at home, that would be fine too. We need a drop in replacement for AD in enterprise settings. For companies with large networks, hundreds and thousands of users, a centralized management solution is completely necessary. If we want people to consider migrating to free software and eventually to Linux instead of other proprietary OSes, we HAVE to have a centralized management solution that is on par with Microsoft Active Directory and Group Policy.
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loki wrote on the 28 Mar 08 at 21:40
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It would be great to have an answer for MS home server...
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MorpheusNOR wrote on the 31 Mar 08 at 20:31
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Url to Landscape?
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