I'll confess to being impressed to some extent. I think about the quickest we can install Novell itself is about 40~50 minutes, before patches etc.
Thanks :D, To be honest I am quite proud myself!!
On my home box I seem to remember Mandrake taking a lot longer to install, even from DVD, but then it was installing with quite a few of the software options, which you wouldn't really need on a network server. I'm assuming for a Karoshi setup you'd be installing just about the bare basics?
Yeah everything un-ticked. When you install Karoshi it tells you the packages you need to install, so only those get installed. The less packages the better :) The actually package installation I got down to about 6 minutes, thats a DVD install of 10.1
I must confess to being curious why Mandrake was chosen as the backend, and not Red Hat, given that Mandrake is basically a series of enhancements and changes to the Red Hat distro. Logic would suggest some of those are critical changes that are needed for Karoshi?
Well, Mandrake was chosen for those use to Windows servers. I have never used Red Hat, though I have played with fedora (the same really..lol) we have Mandrake at home and I have had about 4 years experience with it, to be honest I don't find it as bloated as everyone moans about ;) Karoshi has been moved to suse, in the past we had problems with the fact that certain files would look for certain paths, for example in mandrake its /mnt/cdrom and in suse its /media/cdrom, but these have now been removed. As long as you have KDE installed it should be fine.....I think :P
Bulk user creation is a fairly safe practice in Novell from CSV, though we have experienced peculiarities in the past. As to rights, ours are very strict. I'm not sure how strict yours are, but we pretty much run on a basis of deny, and only permit grudgingly, thus we're granting >rights down to sub-sub-sub (etc) folder level. We had a few issues last week as a >consequence of a major change we needed to make to the structure. Result (due to a 'known', but impossible to find unless you're suffering from it, Novell bug) was that everyone had access everywhere, hardly satisfactory!
Oh, this system is locked down....lol, I have students moaning that they use to be able to get into the RM system but not this one....my answer?? 'ahhhh thats a shame!!' Basically they only get what they are given.
with Windows 2000 and Windows XP workstations, along with being able to remotely lock down workstations (ensures that its almost impossible for a student to mess them up). I don't know how
We have know remote lock-down, though we are working on remote software deployment which is in testing here at DGSB. We only have 200 machines here at the moment, and I just put in a Group Policy and lock down the C drive etc etc, its alot tighter than it was but how tight can you make windows?!?
easy it would be to perform such an operation using Linux workstations.
Wouldn't know, don't have any Linux Workstations though the one we are testing at the moment is locked down and if...IF....anything gets changed it copies it back once the user has logged out and back in again.
Our past experiements with LDAP and a Novell servers haven't been successful (using Novell 5.1, with its flakey LDAP.) After upgrading Novell over the summer, LDAP will be working fine, and Linux'll be spreading a little bit in our network.
Well good luck :D, and if you ever want to come down and visit (or anyone else reading this thread) drop me an email, and we can arrange it. Jo
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