A question to gather some collective wisdom.....(Sorry for the length of this post) An outline: We run Windows workstations (most unlikely to change in any major way), We have to use MS software (kind of parent / staff driven) We have run out of space for our user directories on the NT server and so are looking into a network attachable diskdrive (120GB) We are also running Linux as our gateway, with Squid, Apache, email and lately AUC. AUC has been a great success and is driving up computer usage and hopefully learning. :-) Now the problem: I want to put all our user directories onto the new 'NetDrive' I need to share them for use by Windows I want to make them the same home directories as appear in AUC - currently '/home/popusers/xxxx/username, where xxxx is the year they started in Year 7 So, am I going to be able to achieve this? Should I setup the 'NetDrive' as an NT or Linux drive (it will do either)? When setup how do I get both systems to see the home directories (pretty OK with Windows - map a drive letter and use that in user creation scripts). Pretty sure I would do the same from Linux using Samba, but how to set the correct permissions? At the moment on the Windows computer we have /Users/Students/xxxx/Username as home directories and only have the one share at /User/Students then use permissions on the directories to ensure privacy below that. Is this a job for Winbind? Any suggestions, resources, readings etc appreciated as I have a couple of weeks to sort this all out in my head before I have to implement it. This combined with AUC should pretty well ensure contract renewal! :-) Simon Bryan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
