Re: Linux in the workplace: NT Domains

2001-08-03 Thread William Leese
On Friday 03 August 2001 00:57, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 04:20:20PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: * Patrick Kirk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: Hmmm! Isn't the whole point of working for someone else to get them to buy these essential books for you before you set

RE: Linux in the workplace: NT Domains

2001-08-03 Thread Kurt Lieber
Login to the domain (pdc) You have to join the linux computer to the domain, which requires some level of admin privilages. (We'll assume you have those) %smppasswd -j domainname -r NetBIOS-name-of-PDC (which the linux box needs to be able to resolve, either by broadcast, /etc/hosts or your

RE: Linux in the workplace: NT Domains

2001-08-03 Thread Kurt Lieber
You have to join the linux computer to the domain, which requires some level of admin privilages. (We'll assume you have those) %smppasswd -j domainname -r NetBIOS-name-of-PDC (which the linux box needs to be able to resolve, either by broadcast, /etc/hosts or your samba lmhosts file

RE: Linux in the workplace: NT Domains

2001-08-03 Thread William Leese
-Original Message- From: Kurt Lieber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: vrijdag 3 augustus 2001 8:15 To: 'William Leese'; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: Linux in the workplace: NT Domains You have to join the linux computer to the domain, which requires some level of admin

RE: Linux in the workplace: NT Domains

2001-08-03 Thread William Leese
Leese'; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: Linux in the workplace: NT Domains You have to join the linux computer to the domain, which requires some level of admin privilages. (We'll assume you have those) %smppasswd -j domainname -r NetBIOS-name-of-PDC (which the linux box needs

RE: Linux in the workplace: NT Domains

2001-08-03 Thread Andrew Pritchard
You have to join the linux computer to the domain, which requires some level of admin privilages. (We'll assume you have those) %smppasswd -j domainname -r NetBIOS-name-of-PDC (which the linux box needs to be able to resolve, either by broadcast, /etc/hosts or your samba lmhosts

RE: Linux in the workplace: NT Domains [Konqueror]

2001-08-03 Thread William Leese
-Original Message- From: Andrew Pritchard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: vrijdag 3 augustus 2001 10:38 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: Linux in the workplace: NT Domains You have to join the linux computer to the domain, which requires

Re: Linux in the workplace: NT Domains [Konqueror]

2001-08-03 Thread dman
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 10:47:30AM +0200, William Leese wrote: | Currently I can login to the PDC and other computers logged into the domain. | All that needs to be done now is to get konqueror display a listing of all | these computers. I thought Konqueror was a web browser. If it is, then I

Re: Linux in the workplace: NT Domains [Konqueror]

2001-08-03 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 11:04:07AM -0400, dman wrote: I thought Konqueror was a web browser. It's a hybrid web browser/file manager. Yes, I think that's a bad idea, but copying Microsoft is apparently all the rage. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] I-Con's

Re: Linux in the workplace: NT Domains

2001-08-03 Thread Kent West
William Leese wrote: snip Again, I'm asking help. With SAMBA how do I: Login to the domain (pdc) I haven't figured that out yet, but it'd be great to know, so that I could image a computer lab of 19 machines to be dual-bootable, so some of the students could get some exposure to Linux.

Re: Linux in the workplace: NT Domains [Konqueror]

2001-08-03 Thread dman
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 12:23:43PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: | On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 11:04:07AM -0400, dman wrote: | | I thought Konqueror was a web browser. | | It's a hybrid web browser/file manager. Ok, that would explain my confusion here. | Yes, I think that's a bad idea, but copying

Re: Linux in the workplace: NT Domains [Konqueror]

2001-08-03 Thread William Leese
On Friday 03 August 2001 18:23, Carl Fink wrote: On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 11:04:07AM -0400, dman wrote: I thought Konqueror was a web browser. It's a hybrid web browser/file manager. Yes, I think that's a bad idea, but copying Microsoft is apparently all the rage. Personally I like it. File

Re: Linux in the workplace: NT Domains [Konqueror]

2001-08-03 Thread Michael Epting
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 08:42:01PM +0200, William Leese wrote: Surely, there is someone out there using Konqueror to browse shares in their network? There is a tab in Kcontrol where you can fill in a login, a password and a workgroup to use for SAMBA shares, no mention of domain though.

Linux in the workplace: NT Domains

2001-08-02 Thread William Leese
Hello list, I'm trying to get a Debian GNU/Linux machine up and running within an NT domain. My needs are simple: be able to login to the domain be able to view all computers logged into the domain be able to browse shares Does anyone have any experience with this? I'm aware that I have to use

RE: Linux in the workplace: NT Domains

2001-08-02 Thread Kurt Lieber
an existing NT domain. I used it to get my potato box up and running on my home network with no problems at all. hth --kurt -Original Message- From: William Leese [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 6:53 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Linux

Re: Linux in the workplace: NT Domains

2001-08-02 Thread William Leese
.. and then learn everything lateron when trying to fix small annoyances. -Original Message- From: William Leese [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 6:53 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Linux in the workplace: NT Domains Hello list, I'm

Re: Linux in the workplace: NT Domains

2001-08-02 Thread Patrick Kirk
[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 8:30 PM Subject: Re: Linux in the workplace: NT Domains | On Thursday 02 August 2001 17:01, Kurt Lieber wrote: | If you're an NT administrator moving over to Linux, then I highly | recommend the book Linux

Re: Linux in the workplace: NT Domains

2001-08-02 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Patrick Kirk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: Hmmm! Isn't the whole point of working for someone else to get them to buy these essential books for you before you set off as a fabulously well-paid contractor? IME you don't get to keep the books your employer's paid for. Which kinda

Re: Linux in the workplace: NT Domains

2001-08-02 Thread Patrick Kirk
the ingrates want returned. IME, its a cruel world out there where people don't have .edu in their email addreses ;-) - Original Message - From: Dimitri Maziuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 10:20 PM Subject: Re: Linux in the workplace: NT

Re: Linux in the workplace: NT Domains

2001-08-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 04:20:20PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: * Patrick Kirk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: Hmmm! Isn't the whole point of working for someone else to get them to buy these essential books for you before you set off as a fabulously well-paid contractor? IME you

linux in the workplace

1998-12-10 Thread Zack Brown
I have the opportunity to introduce linux into my company, completely replacing the very flaky windows 95 system that we currently use. Their primary software is Paradox and FileMaker Pro 4.0. As far as I can make out, the other needs of the system are trivial (word perfect, networking, internet

Re: linux in the workplace

1998-12-10 Thread graz
On 10 Dec, Zack Brown wrote: The basic system I am planning on will be Debian/KDE, since I use Debian myself, and find KDE to be most similar in appearance to ms-windows (no insult intended to KDE). as an extra bonus, you could show them how flexible linux + X are, and when you've finished