At one of the schools I support we have a *nix box running our filtering proxy as well as an internal website. Having an AD setup, I realized a bit of work needs to be done in order to get people to login to the website with their AD account. I came across a link on how to do just this step-by-step with Yast but not Mandrake/driva or any other flav. It involves using either samba with winbind or the kerberos client. I have no experience yet with the kerberos client so I think I'll have to try that out. The most recent samba rpm I can get for mandrake just doesn't want to do anymore than share the top parent folder in network neighborhood. Even worse, it will show the files, but not share them!
About this time last year I was running a complete linux domain with xp clients and roaming profiles. Once set up it all worked a charm BUT it all came back to TCO and SSO (single-sign-on). Some hardcore peeps out there will put it down to not doing it right or being out of my depth. Silliness. Always do what you can with what you have. There is no way to survive as a tech in schools/non-profits without accepting the politics from above that enforcea hodge-podge approach because of their impatience. The time it took to setup network apps and a single-point of admin for antivirus took weeks instead of several hours. I found afterwards that when a question or problem arose, I was no longer racking my brain for what the correct man page was to make a tweak to samba or wine etc. What our linux box has done awesome though is our filtering and website (squid w/dans guardian and apache) . If you attempt to set something like that up with limited experience, give this distro karoshi a try. It's aimed towards schools but approaches networks with a corporate lockdown perspective. I still use peices of that distro in various network setups and it runs great.
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