We are actually going to continue using Windows clients (moving the entire school over to linux is an eventual goal but will not be happening for a few years yet). The solution getting them from a database is not possible as we do not keep a copy of users passwords. I'll bear in mind the idea of creating a database though and sticking them into an NT server and a linux server that way - could be useful in the future. No decisions have been made yet and I'm just looking into what is actually practical. From the look of that samba roadmap a great deal of the features there look useful to me - and looking at the alpha the group mapping feature looks particularly useful as presumably that fixes the problems I've had before where group policies don't work just by putting in a group name in poledit - you have to use default user and have multiple policy files and give each group a different netlogon dir (if people understand what i mean). Thanks for all the info, Alex Brett alex.brett@brettcomputers.co.uk On 31 Jan 2003 at 3:32, steven thomas wrote:

I am interested in what sort of desktop/distro you are planning to use and how you intend to lock it down..

Steve Thomas St David's School

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