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
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