[wplug] System admin book

[Henry Umansky]

Sorry, just catching up on a weeks worth of emails.

-Henry

--On Monday, June 23, 2003 10:35 AM -0400 Bill 
<bhalpin at collaborativefusion.com> wrote:r

> Couldn't AFS be a potential solution as well?
>
> On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 09:41, John Strange wrote:
>> Roaming profiles on linux?
>>
>> I think you are a little confused, remember unix doesn't have roaming
>> profiles.  What exactly are you trying to get to work?  That users have
>> the same home directory no matter what machine they log into?
>>
>> If so NFS/NIS/Automount would be a much better solution for you if you
>> are just running linux machines.
>>
>> - John
>>
>> On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 16:56, Shawn wrote:
>> > I am desperatly trying to find a book on linux networking. I currently
>> > have 13 pc's running linux and have been trying to use Samba to do
>> > filesharing and roaming profiles.I am begining to think this doesnt
>> > work  with out windows in the network. Can I do this with NFS.  My
>> > Problem is  that I can create workgroups all daylong with Samba but
>> > the clients are  not joining the domain I have specified. They get
>> > locked out and I cant  see them. I stuck a win98 client and it joined
>> > the domain easily. Why  would a win98 machine join and the linux boxes
>> > not?
>> >
>> > If I can do this with Samba let me know and I will send the config
>> > files  to see what Im doing wrong. If I have to do this with NFS
>> > HELP!!! I  have never used it before.
>> >
>> > Mark Sikora wrote:
>> >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >> http://tldp.org/guides.html (network administrator's guide is a
>> > >> *must*)
>> > >>
>> > >> http://tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/apps.html#SERVERAPPS (for mail/web
>> > >> servers)
>> > >> http://www.wplug.org/mailman/listinfo/wplug
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > > Please do not be afraid to reference the wplug mirror of the LDP.
>> > > http://ldp.wplug.org
>> > >
>> > > Thank you.
>> > >
>> > >
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Henry Umansky
University of Pittsburgh
Computing Services and Systems Development
hmust2 [at] pitt [dot] edu
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