April 2002 - openSUSE Edu - openSUSE Mailing Lists

samba
by Matt Williams 15 Apr '02

15 Apr '02

Morning I have been trying to get samba sitting in our active directory. The main idea is to eventually sit our users home directorys on samba servers and leave the active directory doing the authentication, policies bit. I've set up a test system using mandrake 8.2 and the latest samba rpm that comes with it. I used the instructions here http://de.samba.org/samba/ftp/docs/htmldocs/winbind.html I've successfully joined (I think) the samba server to the active directory and on the login screen I can see a full list of all the active directory users but cannot authenticate with any of them. I tried creating a home dir for one of AD users on the samba server but couldn't change ownership to this user and couldn't mount the home dir from a windows machine. Has anyone come across this before and/or could offer some suggestions on what to try next. TIA matt

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RE: [suse-linux-uk-schools] SUSE 8.0
by Chris Puttick 15 Apr '02

15 Apr '02

I believe upgrade is without the manuals. I've pre-ordered the full version at full price, so if there is a discount I'll be terribly upset... -----Original Message----- From: Alan Davies To: suse-linux-uk-schools(a)suse.com Sent: 14/04/2002 15:01 Subject: [suse-linux-uk-schools] SUSE 8.0 I'm not mad on buying X.0 issues - as there is bound to be an X.1 version with bug fixes soon after. Nevertheless - if there was a good offer (hint, hint) on 8.0 professional I would certainly be considering a copy. (Advance orders?) Does the 'upgrade' contain differences from Personal or does it include 'Professional' extras? -- Alan Davies Head of Computing Birkenhead School -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-linux-uk-schools-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-linux-uk-schools-help(a)suse.com

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Re: [suse-schools-usa] Whoa
by Robert Mulder 14 Apr '02

14 Apr '02

Hi all, Government offices in Europe already have detailed plans to move substantial parts of their (office) IT platforms from Windows to Linux, or already did this. The Bundestag, which is the German parliament, is a good example; they already moved their servers to Linux, and are now working on their desktops to move these too. I thought some other European countries also had plan, including my country. Schools are a different story. Here in the Netherlands, where I come from, most teachers in primary and secondary education are computer illiterates. They weren't trained to use computers in their daily practice, and most of them hardly know how to work with Windows, left alone Linux. The younger generation of teachers start using computers as a new method of teaching children. But it still is more for fun than it adds up to their knowledge. Hope this respons give you people in the US (and elsewhere on this globe) an idea of what's happening here in Europe. Robert Mulder. >From: Andrew Choens <dru(a)worldskip.com> >To: suse-schools-usa(a)suse.com >Subject: [suse-schools-usa] Whoa >Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 21:30:10 -0400 > >Very interesting. I signed up for this several months back and forgot all >about it. This is definitely one low traffic list. > >However, there seem to be people on the silly thing. Perhaps we should >actually do something and then we could talk about it. (Forgive me, I'm a >community organizer, this is what I do.) I signed up for this list >thinking I could hear about the efforts to move Linux into schools. It is >my rarely humble opinion, that in order for Linux to become accepted, there >must be a broad user base that is MORE comfortable with Linux and it's >inherent strength/flexibility that with Windows. Schools seem to be an >ideal tool to reach this end. > >I'm also interested in the idea of moving Linux into the non-profit sector. > These seem to be two sectors of our society that are traditionally >strapped for cash that could really benefit from this OS. > >So, having said all of this to the choir, does anyone know about any >ongoing efforts to do any of this? I would be very interested in hearing >about this. > >Peace >--andy > >On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 17:03:48 -0500 >"Daniel Geldres Castro" <dgeldres(a)pcprices.com.pe> wrote: > > > > > =============================== > > Saludos, > > Daniel Geldres Castro > > mail: dgeldres(a)pcprices.com.pe > > Telf Trab.: 511-447-7600 > > Telf Casa.: 511-251-3584 > > ICQ 72211218 > > MSN daniel_geldres(a)hotmail.com > > Yahoo ID danielgeldres > > =============================== > > SuSE Linux > > fácil, independiente, > > estable, seguro! > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-schools-usa-unsubscribe(a)suse.com > > For additional commands, e-mail: suse-schools-usa-help(a)suse.com > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-schools-usa-unsubscribe(a)suse.com >For additional commands, e-mail: suse-schools-usa-help(a)suse.com > _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx

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Moving Linux to a larger disk - how?
by Bruce Miller 14 Apr '02

14 Apr '02

I've been reading this thread with a growing sense of alarm at the prospect of trying this task myself. In the past, I have always used 'Drive Copy' to to copy Windows based HDD's. This has been excellent an extremely easy and quick. About nine months ago, I bought a copy Norton Ghost (about £30). This does much the same and a bit more too. It claims to support Linux as well as NT, XP etc. I have used it several times on XP and would thoroughly recommend it. The Linux options in the manual, are not as exhaustive as with NT/XP but it should do the job without any fuss, I would have thought. And quickly too. Does anyone have any experience of this program in conjunction with Linux?

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SUSE 8.0
by Alan Davies 14 Apr '02

14 Apr '02

I'm not mad on buying X.0 issues - as there is bound to be an X.1 version with bug fixes soon after. Nevertheless - if there was a good offer (hint, hint) on 8.0 professional I would certainly be considering a copy. (Advance orders?) Does the 'upgrade' contain differences from Personal or does it include 'Professional' extras? -- Alan Davies Head of Computing Birkenhead School

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Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Moving Linux to a larger disk - how?
by Alan Davies 14 Apr '02

14 Apr '02

On Sat 13 Apr, Robert J Gautier wrote: > On Sat, 13 Apr 2002, Alan Davies wrote: > > > So I copied files from root into the boot partition - ran lilo (now successful) and > > it now boots BUT > > > > Re-booting gives an error that it failed to find a swapfile signature. > > > > So how do I restore a signature? > > > > See: `man mkswap' Ah - well I had used mkswap - as mkswap /dev/hdb2 to create it on a second drive while I was copying data from first to it. I then replaced the first drive with the second - and expected the swap space to be found on /dev/hda2 Clearly - I have misunderstood something - and mkswap must have put something in a config file which directed the OS to look for swap space elsewhere. I expected the partition to be found on boot up and used. I must say that having now copied the whole installation and got it going - it is easier than doing the same with Windows which always has hassles with open files failing to copy (registry and virtual memory) which have to be dealt with in some round about way. -- Alan Davies Head of Computing Birkenhead School

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Charter Final Draft
by Lance Lane 14 Apr '02

14 Apr '02

Sorry I'm late. I was a wonderful day out in the canyons and I had to get outside! Linux users that would benefit most to this list are teachers, parents, school administrators, school system administrators and educational software developers. We welcome anyone from around the world to help us better develop our ideas and the way that we service our students. The purpose of suse-schools-usa(a)suse.com is to provide an exchange of ideas and discussion forum for issues pertaining to the implementation of the Linux operating system in K-12 schools. Appropriate posts could address issues such as curriculu m involving Linux, classroom practices, the implementation of Linux in the classroom, school wide development of Linux based applications for education and the use of Linux in schools as a more cost effective approach to delivering educational services. * Technical support questions may be better addressed for SuSe Linux and other brands of Linux in other appropriate newsgroups.

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Charter Draft
by Lance Lane 13 Apr '02

13 Apr '02

Keeping it brief: Give me feedback please. The purpose of suse-schools-usa(a)suse.com is to provide an exchange of ideas and discussion forum for issues pertaining to the implementation of the Linux operating system in K-12 schools. Appropriate posts could address issues such as curriculum involving Linux, classroom practices, the implementation of Linux in the classroom and schoolwide, development of Linux based applications for education and the use of Linux in schools as a more cost effective approach to delivering educational services. People that would benefit most to this list are teachers, parents, school administrators, school system administrators and educational software developers. We welcome anyone from around the world to help us better develop our ideas and the way that we service our students. * Technical support questions may be better addressed for SuSe Linux and other brands of Linux in other appropriate newsgroups. Lance

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Is this it?
by Lance Lane 13 Apr '02

13 Apr '02

So far, Active members we have about 4. 1. I can write the charter and we can include all of those things that we talked about. 2. People that want to know how to set up a firewall can get on Knode and go to alt.os.linux.suse? Is that OK? 3. We can invite others like our UK neighbors into the group and when we get off of the subject we can direct them to the correct group. Is this OK with everyone? I wish that if anyone is "lurking" that they could let us know at least once that their are others! Lance

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Moving Linux to a larger disk - how?
by Alan Davies 13 Apr '02

13 Apr '02

OK, I have a new 60GB drive to place on my 20GB Linux box. Don't get excited - its only IDE. I thought I would reclaim the 20GB for some lesser role in life. Is is best to do a re-install and then somehow (how?) move the settings from the old drive to the new. -Or- should I format the paritions (how exactly) and then copy (how? if I want to keep acls etc) data from old to new drive. And do I then need to make it bootable? (As usual, you will gather from this that my ignorance knows no bounds) - and BTW - are we going to get a special offer price on SUSE 8.0?

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