Hello Richard,
* Richard Williamson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [990422 12:15]:
> Hi all,
> Let me explain my situation:
>
> I am a teacher in an Inner City school in Nottingham, England. We can get
> just enough money (10K GBP)from a company for 30 PCs - and it _must_ be
> spent on 30 PCs. With this money we can't afford software, and I am
> contemplating running SuSE with KDE on these machines. This will be running
> from an NT4 server (sorry!).
>
> I am a newbie of a few months with Linux and don't really know the
> intricacies of getting Linux to happily talk with NTFS partitions etc.
> Could anyone recommend a good book explaining:
> NTFS issues
> Tying in with NT security
> Desktop security
> Printer networking
> etc.
>
> I realise that It's a bit odd having Linux running off an NT server, but
> what the hell! It's this or nothing. Anyway, I fancy a challenge :)
While it is more focused on setting up Samba systems to integrate as
servers in Windows environments, "Samba: Integrating UNIX and Windows"
touches on all the relevant topics. It also gets rave reviews from
knowledgable people everywhere.
Evaluate for yourself whether it sounds like something you'd find useful:
http://www.ssc.com/ssc/samba/
Additionally, as you may be new to unix, and may end up being the
'sysadmin' for these machines, you probably could use a crash course on
linux as well as general SysAdmin text.
The crash course book I used was called Running Linux, by Matt Welsh.
It's a bit dated by now, but still useful, and I haven't heard of a real
successor.
Info: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/runux2/
Purchase:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1565921275/ref=sim_books/002-0340287-6456460
As for keeping those 30 systems tamed, a crash course on managing
computers might not be too bad. I learned from Aeleen Frisch's "Essential
System Adminstration", which I liked a good deal. Other people I have
talked to preferred 'The Red Book', which I believe is the one I have
listed below. I've not read it myself and can't say.
Essential System Administration
info:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/esa2/
purchase:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1565921275/ref=sim_books/002-0340287-6456460
Unix System Administration Handbook
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0131510517/o/qid=925007413/sr=2-3/002-0340287-6456460
Of course, there's always the free books from the Linux Documentation
Project. Here's a British mirror.
http://ldp.dgc-nms.co.uk/ldp/
They should get your feet wet nicely.
> regards
> Richard WIlliamson
Best of luck,
-josh
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