On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 at 08:10, amiel ong wrote: > it's harder to securify that kind of setup.
Actually, I don't think so. Yes, you will need to set up user accounts for every computer user you have, and you will need to educate them about logging on and off. But you will also be able to limit access to certain files. Before I migrated to a Linux-based Samba fileserver, everyone had access to everything. Honesty system lang kami noon. With the Samba server people only get access to particular shares. I can restrict who gets to read a particular share, or who gets to do read and write operations. Initially this benefit was all just in our minds. Because of the honesty system in place, having the software handle fine-grained ACLs didn't feel necessary. Until we had a new hire who after a week in his probationary period I think got a verbal beating from my father for doing something crazy. He was so pissed off that while everyone in MIS was out (at the time that meant me and my father) he tried to mess up the files on the server. Unfortunately he didn't have access to anything but his home directory yet. And I got logs of his attempts. He was booted out of the company that same day. > plus i have to teach the users to save to the linux box. I agree that this is a challenge. Even now I have people putting files in the workstations' hard drives. Until we migrate the network to 100% Linux, the only solution is having regular reinstallations. This hits two birds with one stone. One benefit of regularly reinstalling Windows is that you get to re-optimize the setup and significantly speed things up. This has a lot to do with Windows' filessytem and registry. The other benefit is that people know that regularly the hard drives will get erased, so they don't put stuff on the hard drives. :) Having a central filesystem also has the benefit of being able to centrally upgrade the performance of the entire network. With everything in one box, you just upgrade the RAM and IO subsystem and everyone feels the boost. Plus you get to organize your organization's files, instead of having files in various states of update on various workstations in your network. --> Jijo -- Federico Sevilla III :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator :: The Leather Collection, Inc. GnuPG Key: <http://jijo.leathercollection.ph/jijo.gpg> _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
