Do I need LDAP or just Samba??

[Andy Figueroa]

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 <openadmin at gmail.com 
> <mailto:openadmin at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     HI Jim,
> 
>     On 21 January 2010 10:13, Jim Christiansen
>     <jim.c.christiansen at gmail.com <mailto:jim.c.christiansen at gmail.com>>
>     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
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