Small office centralized management (nfs, ldap, etc)

Question

I've setup a small group of workstations and a server running various flavors of linux in our office. The server and a few of the workstations are arch boxes. What I want to do is setup some sort of nfs/ldap management system on the server to centralize logins and user home directories so we can all login to any of the workstations easily and have our home files and settings on all the different machines.
I've done a bit of reading (http://solarblue.net/docs/ldap.htm) and messing around with nfs and ldap, but can't seem to make them work quite right. Has anybody set this up using arch that would be willing to share what they did or point me to a good doc (all the ones I've read so far are for redhat and tough to apply to an arch install)?
Thanks,
Alex

Answer 1

I think I have the client part figured out now. The basic outline of steps is:
1.) pacman -Sy nss_ldap pam_ldap
2.) edit /etc/nss_ldap.conf
3.) edit /etc/nss_pam.conf
4.) add /etc/ldap.secret (with plaintext rootdn password and a blank line at the end, chmod it 600)
5.) edit /etc/pam.d/*   (caution!!! you can kill your login here)
  -This part is still a little confusing to me because most of the docs about it are for debian or redhat. Redhat has a neat little utility called authconfig that takes care of everything and debian has everything split over 4 files (as opposed to arch having a ton). I have a working config after browsing forums all day, but I don't feel to confident about it.
6.) edit /etc/nscd
7.) /etc/rc.d/nscd start <-- This is very broken on arch, check this topic: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … light=nscd
That's it I'll try to do a nicer write-up about it in the next day or two including how I setup the server. I still don't have ssl enabled though, so I'm going to wait until I figure that part out.