Dear Jim, If I may horn in here, I run XP in VirtualBox in a production environment (school) in order to run a single application, QuickBooks. XP in VirtualBox on a Linux host could be said to run just about perfectly. I also run multiple Linux servers in VirtualBox on a Linux host (Gentoo) for the puposes of development and testing, which has shown me that Linux in VirtualBox could also make a perfectly stable production Linux server environment. I have tested that with an Edubunutu LTSP server (hardy), and a Gentoo based OpenAdmin web server.
Andy Figueroa Jim Christiansen wrote: > Thank you Les for your help. I'm grateful. > > I'm a full-time teacher and also run the DNS, firewalls, webpage and the > ltsp servers and 100 clients. I'm just comfortably busy (whine) but > anything new sure adds to the pile it seems! > > I wonder for convenience if I can run an XP Pro in a virtual box for my > testing. This way I wouldn't have to mess with any other hardware. > > Thanks, > > Jim > > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Les R <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > HI Jim, > > On 21 January 2010 10:13, Jim Christiansen > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > wrote: > > Hi Scott, > > My LTSP Server that I want to use for the WinXP Pro > authenticating is an > > Ubuntu box running 9.04 . I'm looking for the easiest method to > do this- > > LDAP or just Samba. > > Now I know that Samba will do it. I don't really want to install > another > > server for this to work :-) > > Now- to figure out Samba for XP Pro authenticating the the > sharing of the > > existing Linux student home directories. > > Samba will do the export of home automagically. > > The NT login script can then just mount this share with a 'net use' > command. > The only issue sometimes is ownership and permissions ( watch umask > value). > > Les > > > > > > Thanks, > > Jim > > -- > > edubuntu-users mailing list > > [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users > > > > > > -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
