Re: migration to debian from NT4 :)
debian woody has samba version 2.2
this acts fine as a PDC and can authenticate users, provide home
directories and shared directories. using a login script these network
drives can then be assigned to drive letters when the users log in.
command is like - net use /home H:
roaming profiles also works fine.
i have set this up with a bunch of win98 clients.
then i installed postfix and courier-imap so that the users could pick up
their email.
roaming profiles works fine so that users who logged into a different
machine could pick up their own email - of course, using imap means that
all of their email is actually on the server.
(the first time a user picks up email from a different machine they have to
enter the email and server account details - but after that it is
'remembered'
the best book for this is the o-reilly samba book - i followed the
instructions in this book and they worked fine.
of course - if you use sarge of www.backports.org you can get samba version
3.0 which has active directory services and much more functionality.
HTH,
kev
Gabriel Granger wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I've been asked to move our domain from NT in to the linux world :)
> naturally Debian of course. I would like advise if anyone has does
> this on the best way to do this. The server will need to have some smb
> share available and would love to be able to migrate the fax server
> which in its current state is crap... you have to physically go over to
> the server to look at incoming faxes and then print them (I dont allow
> my users VNC type access) I would however like if possible to be be
> able to somehow send and receive faxes from the desktops....does anyone
> know if there are any great apps for such a task? bear in mind that I
> have w2k, SuSe and OSX desktop clients. I guess the only major thing
> is how to get the user login details out of the NT4 server and import
> into the linux server? i really want to avoid a manual process if
> possible
>
> Many thanks
>
> Gabe
>
>
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