-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jean-Michel Dault wrote: > Le lun 17/03/2003 à 18:10, Buchan Milne a écrit : > > >>If you have people running Windows domains, and are trying to convince >>them to host on Mandrake, hopefully winbind auth in install works, and you >>can ask them to enter a domain admin username/password, and have instant >>personal webpages (after mkdir /etc/skel/public_html and a bit of tweaking >>to commonhttpd.conf). > > > A couple of years ago, I had setup my ISP so windows users could have a > W: drive that was mapped to their public_html, so this is quite the > opposite of what you're suggesting.
Not really, the only thing I am adding is winbind, which means that you will never have to add user accounts to the linux box, and if you do use samba, it can auto-create home directories also without much effort. > > What I want is to replace all Microsoft Domain controllers by Linux > boxes, and to have every Windows user log in to that domain, with > pre-mapped drives, printers, backups and anti-virus. I started such a > setup at one of our customer's sites, but Todd has taken over. I'm now > looking for a way to have a standard setup so I could have a > "server-in-a-box" appliance. This is pretty easy to do if you are happy with a single domain. With the ldap-enabled RPMS, you can have multiple domain controllers (but I think still only one domain ... but possible multiple ... need to test this). I still need to get around to generating a domain-controller specific smb.conf in the rpm. But, using ntlogon (in contrib, example samba config in the default smb.conf) to auto-generate login scripts, use a vscan module on the server, store profiles on the server, restrict permissions on the desktop machines, and run amanda on the file servers, you're waxed. I do setups similar to this (usually without ldap, since it requires less education for the admins) in one day for smallish networks (20-30 machines), including firewall, mail server (with virus scanning) etc. Only think we haven't bothered with here is auto-setting up printers (at present the user must just browse the print server and double-click on the printers), but that can be done with con2prt.exe available in the Windows Resource Kit in a login script. Regards, Buchan - -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+dvNlrJK6UGDSBKcRAo/VAKCHqwBWdithAbsIP2EPPEtsfuRFUgCgoHJO vcfWMwp3oi/bCq428X/qAao= =+ldx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
