[plug] FW: Linux, Doze and samba

[Rob Hall]

Got this message from the AltOS group.  Sums up my thoughts exactly.

Regards,


Rob Hall


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-----Original Message-----
From: Nathan Dietsch [mailto:ndietsch at mse.com.au] 
Sent: 19 February 1999 06:22
To: rivuug at rivuug.webfront.net.au; alt-os at farrer.riv.csu.edu.au
Subject: Linux, Doze and samba


Hello all,

Recently I bought second computer. A Celereon 333 et al. Anyway, I
bought it because I am doing a course at uni, ITC226 Application
programming for Doze. Seeing as I was being forced to use it, I thought
I would make just that little bit more interesting.

At work we use an NT Server to which we all log in, in the morning. One
of my former colleagues (An NT Fascist as opposed to a UNIX Bigot) was
spouting about how good these roving profiles were. So if there was
something that NT coyuld do, I knew Linux could do it as well if not
better.

The adventure starts now .....

I did not buy a CDROM to keep costs down, so I set up Samba to export a
CDROM in my server. it did it quite painlessly ... without rebooting
after setup changes either might I add.

This was alright I thought. Then i remembered we were having a problem
at one of our other companies. They needed a machine to control logins
and an NT liscence for this operation would just be a pain, an ISP
running all BSD machines. So I decided to set up Samba to process logins
from the doze machine.

To cap it off I remembered about the roving profiles, so I set them up
too. All in all it took about 2 hours, but that involved some reading of
the "Samba: Integrating UNIX and Windows" Book.

All pretty sweet now. 

The real question is, if most of NT's core services (File Serving and
Providing Domain Logons) can be replaced, who needs it ?

BTW, I wont be keeping Doze for Long, stupid uni course ... mutter
mutter, curse curse 

Nathan
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