On Fri 05 Dec, Darren Smith wrote:
Thanks for both replies! I have had a little look about and am not convinced samba is the way to go. We already use samba at work for file shares and have used it in the past for print serving but from following up the first reply it looks like to use samba you would have to set up a samba server on each pc and tell it all of the usernames and then get this to pass back to the 2k domain. If this is correct then it is obviously not practical for a primary let alone us (large secondary + sixth form). If it is not correct then sorry and I think I need more guidance :-)
Samba is the way windows does all its filesharing - and is part of file and printer services that get loaded automatically in windows. You only need the names on the Win2K server and the linux box can and will authenicate off it. I just can't get it to work yet.
It seems to me that this list of for (generally) people that want to get SUSE Linux working in there school so *someone* must have done this?
I think they have only done this "in principle" or someone else did it for them.
I'm not asking for step by step instruction - I'm happy to google or read URLs - but a couple of pointers would be useful and I will happily feed back my experiences for others in the same boat and / or the archives.
Well I'd like a noddy step by step guide - and I realise the people who could do this are to busy doing greater things to bother about us. -- Alan Davies Head of Computing Birkenhead School