Hallo Greg,
i am sorry I didn't understand all your questions because of my bad english knowledge and I apologize for my mistakes.
One year ago we changed our server structure from thee Novell 5 Servers with NDS to samba3 PDC with ldap for authentication and cups for printing. We have nearly 450 users and 400 workstations and after some problems at the beginning we are really happy about this descision. After this change we are not be able to use NAL, this was one of the biggest problem for the acceptance by the users, because with NAL the user did not need to pay for applications (the university paid for this licence but only in combination with novell client and nal) . Now we install nearly all applications locally on the workstaions and the user has to pay for a campus licence. Because of this more and more users are ready to use alternative applications like staroffice/openoffice or they try to use linux as workstation and they understand, that there is no need to use allways the newest version of an application.
Now, we do not need to change the novell client every some weeks like before, so we have really less work with our workstations and because we do not need to use a novell client, the workstaation startup is much faster then before. For the users it seems to be that the whole network system is much more stable.
I hope, this experience is a help for you.
Sabine
-- Sabine Zarabian university of bielefeld faculty of biology Computing support
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