Start over or fix it??

[technicallygeek]

Something Ive been working on for the last couple of days thats been kickin my a$$ maybe someone will have some input that may be of use.

I ran across this and thought well that would be cool to have on my blog, and for sure something that would be cool to have the experience with

[ame="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=640760"]Ubuntu Server 7.10: OpenLDAP + SAMBA Domain Controller - Ubuntu Forums[/ame]

The short and skinny of it... it's a Linux/Unix like Active Directory with Network File sharing resources...

Essentially when a 'user' logs on to a computer and that computer is part of a group called a domain, their account settings password permissions ect... are stored in the Active Directory database... with integration into a Micro$oft network.

Well im stuck... I got half way through getting it setup and then everything started falling apart.

My RAID1 Array started screwing up... And the LDAP isn't working right

Im stuck and either have to start from scratch again or try to fix the LDAP server and the RAID Array

[Buz Murdock]

I'd check to see if the RAID issue is causing data corruption and is the root cause of the LDAP issue...

[1thatgotaway]

Hardware first.. You are building a castle in a swamp otherwise.

Fix the array first

Then you can look to see if the installs are usable or if a fresh install is in order. Hell I'd start it over anyway just to be sure.

~1TGA

[Mister Tudball]

Okay, let me see if I got this right. There was a raid by the LAPD at a castle in a swamp because of corruption but some of the group called domain got array. Am I close?

[Juan Pablo de Marco]

Mister Tudball... that was the funniest post i've see here.

and to technicallygeek... WTF? i'm an Ubuntu guy too (got it on one of my PC's and my laptop... never going back to windows). but seriously... is ECCIE (or ASPD) where you turn to find answers to this kind of question? there are tons of forums out there where linux experts can help you, and i'm sure you already know that.

try this one:

http://ubuntuforums.org/

i know you have already been there... but seriously dude.

JPdM

p.s. but i'm proud of you for knowing the answer to my 'coconuts' question.

[technicallygeek]

Originally Posted by Mister Tudball

Okay, let me see if I got this right. There was a raid by the LAPD at a castle in a swamp because of corruption but some of the group called domain got array. Am I close?

ROFLMFAO.... Not even

Im not sure why the RAID array is screwing up the error message has something to do with ext2 filesystem and I formatted the partition to be ext3

i think restarting is the best course of action

[argus256]

Post a copy of the error message here and I'll take a look. If it's what I'm thinking it has to do with your journaling.

[dentonseek]

I'd start over, its not a time intensive project unless you're dealing with alot of shares and accounts anyway.

PS. I'm selling a bunch of 1U rack servers if anyone is interested, just PM me.

[technicallygeek]

Technically it's not really 'hardware' lol it's all a virtual setup in VirtualBox.

The RAID array is all software through mdadm package. The first time I set the 2 arrays up I got the same error message as well. This time it was with one array.

in the OP if you check out the link where the author is setting up his array he uses

mkfs.ext3

The second time I used

sudo mkfs -t ext3 <device>

When I boot the Virtual machine up it dumps me in a root shell, I tried umount on the array but it wouldn't let me.

The part that takes the longest is getting the OS Ubuntu 8.04.3 updated once I reinstall so I may just restart the whole project.

Ill post back see if I can get past this point.

If anyone is in the IT field this is something that may be of great interest if you were doing consulting work and wanted an Open Source Free alternative to using a Micro$oft server

[mrod]

Check you version of Ubuntu for bugs ... The latest still seems to have some bugs try an older version.

[technicallygeek]

I was using 8.04.3 the offical Long Term Support release Desktop version, I updated with all the current update.

I haven't had a chance to actually dig back into it and see what the issue is or attempt to start over.