On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 10:55:35AM -0500, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > I am currently researching the possibility of slowly moving an existing > Novell network [with all Windows clients except mine :)] to something > Linux based. I have about 900 clients that would be slowly migrated if > this whole thing is feasible. The version of NetWare we are using now is > no longer "officially supported" from Novell, so it is becoming more and > more difficult to successfully make newer hardware work with the old > software. > > Can Samba handle this kind of client load? It would be mainly for basic > file/sharing and print spooling... > > The next question would be the user administration setup. I know in a > perfect world, LDAP would probably be best. After some preliminary > research, LDAP kind of makes my head spin... But Rome wasn't built in a > day either... Nate (a regular poster to this list) has written a very nice and very thorough LDAP HOWTO, available here: http://howto.aphroland.de/HOWTO/LDAP/FrontPage -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> http://ertius.org/
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