Thomas, Thank you, your reply was fantastic, Adrian said your good and he was right. When I talk about locking files down, to me that means, restricting user access and controlling what they see. I really just going by what I can do at the moment in group policy, as this is what I know. Menu locking and altering from a central location (folder redirection in group policy) Home folder located on a server Authentication from a Linux server basically replace active directory, as I won't need it if my workstations are a Linux distro. Taking drive visibly away from the file manager so they just see their home folder and any shares Replace roaming profiles with Linux version (are all user settings located in /home?) Scripts or a method to ensure printers for each room are setup for every pc in that room with the ability to have some printers roam with certain users. Kiosk seems the way to go, but does this have to be run on every Linux client? All my pcs are decent, except they have windows on them at the moment ;-) Is the webmin environment good for network management? Especially for the likes of what Im trying to achieve? I really like xfce, it's a pity it doesn't seem it has anything like kiosk. I have used a few distros at home, suse, ubuntu, kubuntu (same I know), fedora and more recently simply mepis. I've stayed with mepis purely because the setup for my wireless adaptor was completely flawless and hasn't stopped working since. And it’s a really good distro, in my opinion...
From tinkering with Linux and collection of info, I think (based on limited knowledge) that the set should be as follows:
I'm sorry you read my reply as an attack upon yourself. Not my intention, I assure you. >I answer a lot of questions on different lists -- I've found
Central authentication/management server - 2 for redundancy/load balancing would be nice. File server - backed up every night to dds4 drive - could be on same server as above Intranet/antivirus management server - non critical files also stored here Windows server with terminal services - I still need to run 4 windows apps, successmaker, Pass for windows, phoenix and epar Internet filtering server - cachepilot, censornet, squid/dansguardian (all to be properly assessed) Linux fat client workstations - school wide based image, easily deployed that the more specific you >can be when asking a question, the more precise answer you'll get. Point taken, Again thank you Alan -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.8 - Release Date: 10/05/2005