(offtopic?) help Linux survive among NTs Re: K12 Schools Using Linux(was Re: Introduction)

[rnd@sampo.karelia.ru]

>You can add The French School at Taipei, Taïwan
>We are curently running :
>One GNU/Linux serveur configured as a WinNT server, 
>routeur, backup system, proxy, DNS and dial on demand to the internet 
>and 12 Win95 workstation.
>One GNU/Linux serveur with NFS, NIS, proxy and 18 GNU/Linux Gnome
>workstations.

Hello all!

One of my friends wants to use Linux where everybody else
(including "intranet" server is running WinNT/*).

The questions are:
- how to use WINS under Linux (I think, it is impossible...)
- how to connect to proxy on WinNT (the later demands
for some kind of authentification Linux client can't provide

I am speaking about workstation use of Linux, not server.  (You
know, higher schools have IT policies. Sometimes  stupid  ones,
building all-microsoft network).

The alternative is to give up Linux in such a case  or  provide
those, who run NT-server with info on how to use DNS *grin* and
make proxy accessible  without  authentification  (network-wide
user-authentification).

Me myself never touched WinNT 4.0 for  any  reason,  so  I  was
nohelp when they asked what they must tune on  NT...  (they  do
not know NT much, thus the question).

[ Their WinNT is working very unstable - so they are reluctant to
make big changes without superiors to know... Oh... They do not
have even reliable mail-server... Such a shame. ]

Well,  probably  this  outcry  is  not  offtopic  because  this
particular case when  Linux  is  needed  in  edu  and  CANT  be
employed (as workstation!)  due  to  stupid  all-microsoft)  IT
policy is probably typical.

Any help appreciated.

(I will not name the school where this happened)


Sincerely yours, Roman Suzi
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