Re: [seul-edu] Advice on Linux servers

[Cameron Miller <cdmiller@adams.edu>]

Dave Prentice wrote:

> In line with the thread about Microsoft trying to get rid of Linux servers:
> About 2 months ago the N.O. public school system's servers caught the NIMDA
> virus. (The virus prevention software was onsite but had never been
> installed.) After everything was all cleaned off, the login procedure was
> modified so that any Windows computer logging into the N.O. system
> (subdivided into 5 domains) automatically goes through a script that runs
> the "Panda" antivirus program. <rant>What a piece of junk! Machines that
> used to connect OK now run at a crawl because Panda demands so much of their
> resources.</rant>
>     My classroom is unique in that, as far as I know, it is the only one in
> the school district running Linux. I connect through a freesco router. I
> don't know why the system doesn't try to make me run the Panda program, but
> my classroom is able to connect just fine. Anyway, the servers are set up so
> that anybody logging in with any
> version of Windows has to run Panda. The powers that be have decided that it
> must be so. If we had Linux servers, could they be programmed to force the
> clients to go through the Panda stuff?
> Thanks,
> Dave Prentice
> prentice@instruction.com
> http://www.originsresource.org
> 


You can set up SAMBA to run programs via windows login scripts.

I am not familiar with Panda, but it should be runnable at windows login 
time via a login script.

- cameron

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- cameron miller
- UNIX Systems Administrator
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