The set-up that I have in mind sounds imilar to yours. I want to have two groups; one for staff and one for pupils. I think that for the KS1 classes I will probably just have a class user name and then from year 2 onwards introduce their own user id's.
This sounds sensible. I tried that for a while, and soon went to user names throughout. Reception can log on, but it does eat into the session a bit.
My intention is to set up a shared work space for resources to share with pupils, one for staff to keep planning and policies on, etc and for staff/classes/pupils to have their own work spaces.
Yeah and have an area that pupils can read, but only staff can write to. It's nice for teachers to setup templates that are read-only so children then save them to their MyDocuments or MyWork area.
All work by pupils and staff is currently saved onto floppy disk which means that there are hundreds lying around in classrooms and I don't like this!!
Nasty!
I would like to set up their profiles to include desktops, especially in KS1 to make it easier to access the software that we use.
Yes, if I remember correctly, I use a policy to define desktops (config.pol). This isn't at the school I work in now (which had already bought an RM server before I got there). Let me make very clear, that the two schools I've set linux/samba as the PDC run much quicker than the cluttered RM Connect 2.4 bloaty nonsense I have now.
With regards to my little trial run at home, I've set SUSE up on my laptop. I set samba up with a domain name "test" and added some user id's - I used webmin/swat to help me do this. My XP client won't join this domain, even after typing in the root password and I just can't see anyway to get it to do this.
Ah. Yes. XP you see. I found it an uphill struggle, but got there in the end I think.
I must admit Linux has confused me a little bit and I think I just need to start from scratch. If you could point me in the right direction, I would really appreciate it!
This seems to do all the things I did... http://www.rmschneider.com/writing/xp_and_samba.html A W98 machine doesn't have to bother with machine accounts. You *are* using encrypted passwords, right (in your smb.conf)? I guess it's default anyway. And your users must have (1) linux accounts (maybe by using YAST) and (2) accounts setup using smbpasswd (or something that does this for you - I know webmin can create these users for you, but it must be done). -- Matt ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com