At work today I found an old SCO evaluation CD. A paragraph at the back of the CD cover made me laugh:
> SCO – a tightly integrated set of products which give you the best of both worlds – the power and reliability of UNIX and the freedom of Windows.
The “freedom” of Windows… what is that? :-O Click on the link below for full image.
After buying my Squeezebox I wanted to rip all my music to a lossless music format to get maximum quality out of the little thing. And the Open Source lover that I am the choice fell on FLAC. One problem though…
The problem is that my girlfriend is using Windows with iTunes which isn’t compatible with FLAC or Ogg for that matter.
I googled around for FLAC/Ogg Vorbis support for iTunes and found xiph.org which has a FLAC/Ogg Vorbis plugin for QuickTime ( and therefor also iTunes). iTunes uses the QuickTimes components to playback different audio and video types.
To bad that their latest version 0.1.7 is released only for Mac. It seems that you need to have FLAC contained in Ogg containers to be able to playback FLAC.
This link: a blog about Xiphs development deserves attention as well.
With the latest version of Windows Server 2003 R2 it is no longer needed to install Windows Services for UNIX, since this is now a part of Windows Server 2003, though not enabled by default.
To enable it open Control Panel -> Add or Remove Programs. Now click on Add/Remove Windows Components. Double click on Active Directory Services and select Identity Management for Unix.
After this… surprise… you have to restart the Windows Server 
Now you should be able to see the “Unix Attributes”-tab when looking on properties for a user.
I am looking into authenticating users on Solaris 9 via Active Directory (AD) as an LDAP server. To chop the problem into smaller problems I started to try and connect to the LDAP interface of the AD from a platform which I know. I’m no Solaris expert 
So I installed Ubuntu edgy (server install from alternative CD) and a evaluation Windows 2003 R2 server in the free VMware Server product. Then I install an Active Directory (and a DNS server) on the Windows Server. The I tried to connect to the AD with PHP scripts to test how it worked. I found a good article on www.developer.com about PHP LDAP connections to AD. I also found an article about various handy LDAP search filters for Active Directory.
First create a normal Windows user in the AD which you use to connect to the AD with. You don’t need to add this user to any special groups to allow it to connect to the AD. Just a plain normal user. You might wanna disable password expiration if you are gonna use it in a production environment
The I made a php script on my Ubuntu server somewhat like the following:
#!/usr/bin/php
Remember when you tell PHP script which user you want to connect with, also supply the realm in which the user resides. In my test setup I used my own user je (Jacob Emcken), and my realm testdomain.com which means I’m connecting with to LDAP with the following user:
je@testdomain.com
This error can come from to things:
You have used DN instead of DC in you distinct name:
DN=testdomain,DN=com (didn't work for me)
This worked for me:
DC=testdomain,DC=com
You get this if you are trying to search the root of the tree and you haven’t set the following:
ldap_set_option($ldap_connect_resource, LDAP_OPT_REFERRALS, 0);