[Infrastructures] re: vintela

[Vincent McIntyre]

quoth Scott Carlson:
> We're also looking to integrate the 'vasypserv' daemon on the boxes and
> create NIS objects within the active directory so that we can automount
> home directories for the users to NAS filers.  As I understand it, that
> basically works as follows
>
> A)  User Logs in and 'vascd' downloads the user's information from the
> AD, including home directory
> B)  Unix attempts to change to the user's 'home directory'
> C)  the 'nis' entry for automount within the nsswitch.conf tells unix to
> go look in NIS.
> D)  A NIS domain call equal to 'our active directory domain' is
> intercepted by 'vasypsrv' which then passes the query to 'vascd' and
> thus to the active directory for the contents of the NIS LDAP object
> "auto.master and auto.home".
> E)  automount gets what it wants and mounts /home/username to
> nasfiler:/path/to/home/username

we are looking closely at Vintela at present. It would be very interesting
to hear what your experience is with this. What's your timeframe to start
tinkering?


> From: Mike <mikee@mikee.ath.cx>
>
> I just noticed these folks are in Lindon, Utah. Any connection to SCO?

their premises are right next door, from looking at their street address.
But they claim to no longer have connections to SCO. We asked about this
directly and I have no reason to disbelieve them. When I looked it seemed
the brochureware hadn't quite caught up with the situation on the ground,
there were some statements in the stuff on the SCO site that seemed to
indicate they were the producers of VAS, or something like that.

Cheers
Vince