Re: [expert] Linux Domain Evangelism

2002-02-01 Thread Daryl Johnson
OK, I have a script hound in the office, I will pass this over to him and see what he can make of it. Thanks for the suggestion regards Daryl On Friday 01 February 2002 15:17, you wrote: > Since it's a network share your boss will see a shared drive icon, > you don't have to worry about that.

Re: [expert] Linux Domain Evangelism

2002-02-01 Thread Jose Orlando T. Ribeiro
Since it's a network share your boss will see a shared drive icon, you don't have to worry about that. To map it during logon you should use a logon script that'll have a line with something like: NET USE \\server\studentname password I don't know if you want to put the password in the script o

Re: [expert] Linux Domain Evangelism

2002-02-01 Thread kwan
On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Daryl Johnson wrote: > OK, I have several networks at my college using a mix of 98 and NT into > NT servers and frankly they are not well administered at all. (Not by > me I might add.) There is no overall diagram, or idea of how they are > linked together and when an uplink

Re: [expert] Linux Domain Evangelism

2002-02-01 Thread Daryl Johnson
It happens this way as a matter of course though doesn't it? I mean I accept what you say and understand that the /home/studentname directory is automatically available and password protected (assuming /etc/smb.conf is properly configured) What the boss is getting at though, I think, is that

Re: [expert] Linux Domain Evangelism

2002-02-01 Thread Jose Orlando T. Ribeiro
I think it's easier than you think... can't you mount samba with each directory (/home/studentname) with a user/password? So, the directory is always mounted, but only the student that is the owner will have access to it, when logged... HTH orlando Daryl Johnson wrote: > > > Anyway, cutting

[expert] Linux Domain Evangelism

2002-02-01 Thread Daryl Johnson
OK, I have several networks at my college using a mix of 98 and NT into NT servers and frankly they are not well administered at all. (Not by me I might add.) There is no overall diagram, or idea of how they are linked together and when an uplink or a connection goes down (and remember we are