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. Out of the 900 users, there are probably about 200 actual "power users" that would be doing all their work (intense graphic plublications) directly from the server, and the remaining do basic file sharing, and mostly just have a login for authentication. Lastly, I would need the Samba server to spool print jobs from the clients and send them to HP JetDirect printers... Is this something feasible with Samba? 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... I started googling some possibilities, but haven't come up with a whole lot to point me in a direction. Is anyone using something similar, that can point me in a few specific directions? Thanks for the help -- :wq! Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 204 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/attachments/20030311/0628ccbd/attachment.bin
4.11? 3.12...yikes. I have done this but only with 50 users. The printer spooling was the only part that gave me any trouble. But that was quickly resolved. Runs like a champ(just like NetWare 3.12). LDAP is NDS/Active Directory without the pretty GUI apps and the "smarts" ripped out. In the case of Microsoft "smarts", that's not really a bad thing. Once you configure slurpd, your samba domain controllers will stay in sync. Jim> -----Original Message----- > From: samba-bounces+creole3=bellsouth.net@lists.samba.org > [mailto:samba-bounces+creole3=bellsouth.net@lists.samba.org]On > Behalf Of > Matthew Daubenspeck > Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 3:43 PM > To: samba@lists.samba.org > Subject: [Samba] Small/Medium Samba Install > > > 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. Out of the 900 users, there are probably about 200 actual > "power users" that would be doing all their work (intense graphic > plublications) directly from the server, and the remaining do > basic file > sharing, and mostly just have a login for authentication. Lastly, I > would need the Samba server to spool print jobs from the clients and > send them to HP JetDirect printers... > > Is this something feasible with Samba? > > 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... > > I started googling some possibilities, but haven't come up > with a whole > lot to point me in a direction. Is anyone using something > similar, that > can point me in a few specific directions? > > Thanks for the help > -- > :wq! > > Matthew Daubenspeck > http://www.oddprocess.org >OutBound Mail Scanned by Mcafee Web Appliance.
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 15:43, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: ...> Is this something feasible with Samba?samba can do all of this with no trouble.> > 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... >ldap is the way to go if you want to support services other than samba on this machine. I use it because i use ldap as an NIS replacement and a backend for a groupware suite. If you just want to support samba then you probably don't need ldap - you could use webmin tools to make user administration less intimidating to the command line phobic.> I started googling some possibilities, but haven't come up with a whole > lot to point me in a direction. Is anyone using something similar, that > can point me in a few specific directions?lots of people are doing this - just ask the specific questions you have as you hit problems. I recommend you start with just samba - then add ldap later if you need it. brad -- Bradley W. Langhorst <brad@langhorst.com>