Re: [seul-edu] Win NT w/Linux Server?

[Jim Wildman <jawildman@cfanet.com>]

BDC = backup domain controller
PDC = primary domain controller

Since Samba doesn't 'officially' support being used as a PDC, the
suggestion is to get a minimal NT box to be the 'official' domain
controller, but let Samba on linux act as the backups, which will take
alot of the load.

Harry can explain more fully, but I would guess that his diskless
machines have either a network card which boots from the network, or a
floppy disk to boot from.

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On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Bill Tihen -- TECHNOLOGY wrote:

> Hi Harry,
> 
> What is a BDC.  I do very little with WindowsNT.  Why is
> an little NT server necessary.  I have a mixed
> environment.  I would like to use Linux workstations,
> but convincing people to move away from Mac and windows
> is tricky.  I think I have found nearly enough stuff to
> do the trick, but now I will need to work on the
> teachers.  
> 
> I would like to know how you have done this.  I thought
> most diskless workstations required special ROMs.  (Is
> it tricky to get those working?)
> 
> I have lots of macs that I will need to turn into linux
> workstations.  How will I deal with a mix between PPC,
> i386 and some non-PPC macs running linux?  Is there a
> clever way around this problem?
> 
> I need to test our school's administrative software
> under Wine (rediker's admin plus), FileMaker Pro -
> admissions office, and a specialized version of MS
> Access -- for the business office.  At the moment
> though, I don't know if Abiword is good enough and I
> don't know if we could afford the Corel Office or
> Applixware Licenses (but at least they would have
> presentation software).
> 
> Bill
> 
> Quoting Harry  McGregor <micros@azstarnet.com>:
> 
> > Samba does support NT login, and it even supports PDC
> (unsupported
> > officialy) and BDC roles in an NT Domain.
> >
> > Normaly for an NT domain setup, a very small (low end
> pentium class, etc)
> > NT server with a very low license count should be used
> as a PDC, and the
> > Linux servers setup as BDCs.
> >
> > I would advocate the use of Linux on the desktop, as
> it does work rather
> > well, especialy in a very network centric environment
> (I am typing this
> > at a computer lab we (http://www.osef.org) installed
> in Tucson AZ, the
> > system does not have a hard disk drive, or floppy disk
> drive, it uses
> > NFS root, and swap over NBD, I could hit the reset
> button for all the
> > system cares, and the file system will still be
> perfectly intact).
> >
> >
> > 			Harry
> >
> > On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Bill Tihen -- TECHNOLOGY wrote:
> >
> > > I would like to have a set up where linux/samba
> server
> > > acts as the file and authentication server for
> NT/2000
> > > boxes (as well as a file server for Win 98 boxes). 
> I
> > > have never seen a way to do the NT login
> authentication
> > > without an NT server.  Any ideas?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Bill
> > > __________________________________________
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> > > <http://www.tasis.ch/>
> > >
> >
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> > 
> 
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