Message from Lindsay Allen at 23/05/00 09:54:58PM: > > I'm a very inexpert sysadmin who assists at a local school. We have a > Debian box now for mail, squid, modem server and so on and they are very > receptive to the idea of running Linux workstations and eventually > breaking away from you-know-who. > > Possibilities: > Booting Debian from the server. > Home DIRs on a Debian/Samba box. > Home DIRs on a straight Debian box. > Using NFS mounted applications. (Star Office etc.) > Using X in lieu of NFS and running things on the server. > > All this is way outside my experience so I really could use some help. > > Can anyone give me some URLs for information on how to set things up, or > people to talk to? > > Lindsay
In my school, we keep the home dirs on a NFS server (which, incidentally, doesn't allow logins) and the autofs options to mount home directories "on the fly". We also use NIS+ to keep all of our user data in line, which makes it alot easier. I would not suggest using NIS+ though, because Debian support is not good at this time. NIS works good, but is an insecure protocol. Possibly look into OpenLDAP w/SSL for username lookups? (We're looking into that ourselves lately). Here, we found it easier to install all the applications locally with apt-get. After I finish the first station, I put an image (dd | bzip2 -) up on the network and then use my specialized version of tomsrtbt to image the systems from a NFS mount. Hope this helps. Michael Janssen - Jamuraa [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED]