Josh Rodman wrote:
>
> 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
Here is another book you might want to check out from O' Reilly.
"The Complete Windows NT & UNIX System Administration Pack"
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/hp12pack/excerpts/excerpts.html
Dale
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