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Re: [seul-edu] Win NT w/Linux Server?
Hi Harry,
What is a BDC. I do very little with WindowsNT. Why is
an little NT server necessary. I have a mixed
environment. I would like to use Linux workstations,
but convincing people to move away from Mac and windows
is tricky. I think I have found nearly enough stuff to
do the trick, but now I will need to work on the
teachers.
I would like to know how you have done this. I thought
most diskless workstations required special ROMs. (Is
it tricky to get those working?)
I have lots of macs that I will need to turn into linux
workstations. How will I deal with a mix between PPC,
i386 and some non-PPC macs running linux? Is there a
clever way around this problem?
I need to test our school's administrative software
under Wine (rediker's admin plus), FileMaker Pro -
admissions office, and a specialized version of MS
Access -- for the business office. At the moment
though, I don't know if Abiword is good enough and I
don't know if we could afford the Corel Office or
Applixware Licenses (but at least they would have
presentation software).
Bill
Quoting Harry McGregor <micros@azstarnet.com>:
> Samba does support NT login, and it even supports PDC
(unsupported
> officialy) and BDC roles in an NT Domain.
>
> Normaly for an NT domain setup, a very small (low end
pentium class, etc)
> NT server with a very low license count should be used
as a PDC, and the
> Linux servers setup as BDCs.
>
> I would advocate the use of Linux on the desktop, as
it does work rather
> well, especialy in a very network centric environment
(I am typing this
> at a computer lab we (http://www.osef.org) installed
in Tucson AZ, the
> system does not have a hard disk drive, or floppy disk
drive, it uses
> NFS root, and swap over NBD, I could hit the reset
button for all the
> system cares, and the file system will still be
perfectly intact).
>
>
> Harry
>
> On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Bill Tihen -- TECHNOLOGY wrote:
>
> > I would like to have a set up where linux/samba
server
> > acts as the file and authentication server for
NT/2000
> > boxes (as well as a file server for Win 98 boxes).
I
> > have never seen a way to do the NT login
authentication
> > without an NT server. Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Bill
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>
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