hmm, well, could you not have a generic linux login, and then make the browser authenticate with a proxy such as squid? you can use squid with windows can't you, which is where SAMBA comes back in?? Or, if your internet usage monitoring is not tied to the users windows account, ie. you're not just checking their history ;) , just don't bother with the authentication part, and let the RM proxy do whatever it does.... -----Original Message----- From: crowhurst [mailto:crowhurst@hatchend.harrow.sch.uk] Sent: Wed 14/05/2003 11:03 To: suse-linux-uk-schools Cc: Subject: Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Using older machines for the internet > >> We have 100Mb broadband > Bl**dy hell!!! really?!?! ain't it sweet ;) > What are you using to see whether a user has visited a site, what is your reporting tool? > Our users authenticate with the proxy, and that is what tells us what they've been doing, and controls their access. Actually to be honest I doubt if anyone asked we would know. That is all down to our esteemed leader! I expect there is some proprietory RM utility that is inherently complicated to use. The linux part would be my responsibility, thats why I'm making it a bit more of a priority! I could I suppose authenticate each user, and then use a linux based proxy just to sit my internet clients behind, and do all of the logging on that? Dan > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: crowhurst [mailto:crowhurst@hatchend.harrow.sch.uk] > Sent: Wed 14/05/2003 10:47 > To: suse-linux-uk-schools > Cc: > Subject: Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Using older machines for the internet > > > > Well currently we don't have one! At least not on site - Each client has an > ip in the range 10.112.44.x with the proxy being at a remote site. It all > seems to work quite happily though. . Someone told > our head of it that our proxy would be slowing it down (which I had my > doubts about but still...) so we had the upheaval of changing it all about > so that each client talked directly to our broadband providers proxy. > > I'm not sure that the way you have yours is suitable for us though. Let me > clarify: > > I need to be able to say that user x did/did not look at the site > www.somethingdodgy.com > I don't want each user to have a "Windows account" and a "Linux Account" so > want to be able to use the username/password from the win2k domain. for > both. It is each individual user that needs to authenticate. > > cheers, > > Dan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-linux-uk-schools-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-linux-uk-schools-help@suse.com