[plug] Help please

[Adam Ashley]

Very very possible, did it last week, you need any help with it email me and
ill try to help, but mostly the samba documentation covers everything you
need to know. And the tech is right, you can only do it with an NT server,
but that doesnt mean you need microsofts NT server

Adam

> -----Original Message-----
> From: steve at plug.linux.org.au [mailto:steve at plug.linux.org.au]On Behalf
> Of Steve Vertigan
> Sent: Friday, 6 April 2001 5:13 PM
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] Help please
>
>
> Aaron W wrote:
> >
> > Hey everyone
> >
> > My school has a network running on win98 and nt server
> > and they have done somthing so that access restrictions on the
> desktop can be
> > implied according to the password that you type , for example ,
> the students dont
> > have access to any icons on the desktop and can only open up
> assigned programs such
> > as word , ie .etc . I have spoken to the computer technician
> and he informed me
> > that I can only do this to my network if I have Nt Server . Is
> this true and can I
> > do this with Mandrake 7.2 or redhat 7
>
> Your schools technician is clueless.  This can be done with any OS that
> supports samba, ie any linux distro you choose.  http://www.samba.org
> would be a good place to start looking, or just install samba and read
> some of its documentation.  Basically you need to set up samba as a
> domain server and you need to create a profile with a program on your
> windows cd and copy the file over to your linux box.  Sorry I don't
> remember the specifics of the windows operations as it's been over 12
> months since I last did this but it's definitely possible and well
> documented.
>
> Steve
>
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