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Re: [tlug] Network with Windows and Linux



Thank Scott and Steven

Wondering below
> >>>>> "Gerald" == Gerald Naughton
> <naughton123@example.com> writes:
> 
>     Gerald> Wondering how you how stanadardize
> between
>     Gerald> Windows/Solaris/Linux
> 
> My gakurui (gakubu in a normal daigaku) runs Samba
> on Solaris with
> Windows workstations for the students.  We used to
> dual-boot.  Linux
> worked fine, but the students f**ked up the Windows
> workstations on a
> regular basis so the tech staff had no time to deal
> with Linux, and
> they ditched it.
> 
> AFAIK there have been no problems with this for
> years (except for
> people on the same subnet with one of the labs,
> whose bandwidth used
> to go to zero once or twice a week for Microsoft's
> regular closing-of-
> the-barn-door-after-the-horse-is-stolen exercise,
> which evidently
> involves multicasting a multigigabyte disk image to
> all the
> workstations).
> 
> As I say, it's been years and I don't use the SMB
> facilities, but the
> transition was done over a period of a year, first
> the fileservers
> were converted to Samba-on-Solaris over a summer
> vacation, then
> printers and other services were added in parallel
> with the
> traditional utilities for print submission, etc,
> finally utilities
> were phased out.
some TLUG server upgrades.
> 
> 
how to sync passwords between Samba Server/User
A/Cs/Mail Server
/Web Server etc


Maybe the only way is LDAP with Samba 

My ultimate goal is get rid of my Windows 2000 Domain
Server ;->

g



		
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