Hello and thank you for your answers, which confirm what I thought.

Regarding OpenSSL, I'll take a closer look at the bulk generation of all certificates and the procedures (copying to private and SSL, I assume, and especially how to automate client deployment with this...).

Hello,

I'm far from an expert, as I've only been discovering this tool for a few months.
So what I'm about to say might be incomplete or even impossible, but it's worth a try.

If the server is installed on Debian (it works on other distributions too, but I'm less familiar with them), I...

Hello,

I'm getting back to you very late, but things are progressing at their own pace here.

Thanks to all your helpful advice, I managed to run my tests in VirtualBox without any problems, and I was able to give a presentation/demo to my superiors. They appreciated the tool and approved the implementation of a...

You can indeed integrate it into the installer, but you can also create a package that will do it automatically. (That way, the local repository won't be empty anymore.) Cool; the idea was just to verify that no action was required on each client other than to deploy the service.

[/quote] Yes, exactly...

Good evening,

thank you for your reply, that's kind of you.

There will still be the groups and host packages in http://wapt/wapt-host/. I hadn't thought of that, but it makes sense.
I haven't quite grasped the role of host packages compared to software packages yet, but since I haven't...

Hello,

A huge thank you for these answers, which allow me to clearly define the project in my mind before implementing it for testing (I'm preparing a virtual test environment; it's taking a little time on my machine...lol).

The second solution is exactly what I'd like to do...

Hello and thank you for your replies.

I would like to get WAPT (and Samba4) training, but unfortunately my employer doesn't agree :(
It's reassuring to know that what I want to do seems possible.

Regarding the first answer, Active Directory is used in rare cases, and no server is used in rare cases...

Hello,

I apologize in advance for the length of this post.

Situation:
I work for the regional government in IT administration and maintenance for high schools. In order to simplify application maintenance and updates, enable centralized management of applications available to high schools, and replace the...