[Lula] replace win 2003 adc server

[Steve]

Vic Herrera wrote:

> Ah,
>
> But you are talking to someone coming from the Windoze Whirled, so 
> they need some gooey help...
>
Actually I am a Linux admin, but this client, for various reasons, is 
best served by a windows ADC/app server.  I like Linux, but no one o/s 
is the best solution in every situation.  And although we all like to 
bash Micro$oft, they have had some good ideas, along with some bad ones.

> Assuming you are only doing file sharing, try SWAT, 
> http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/SWAT.html

  This server needs to implement a windoze xp client that is locked down 
hard.  I need to control the users; file sharing is the least of my 
worries.  It is possible to push down a default profile from a samba 
server to clients, but only at the clients' first logon.  After that, 
you would have to make changes to all clients individually.  That's 
where a centralized configuration management utility like Group Policy 
Objects comes in.

If anyone knows of an alternative to GPOs, please post.  AFAIK, even 
Novell Linux doesn't offer this for windoze clients.

>
> It is a super easy web interface to manage Files, Folders and 
> Accessibility. There are endless configuration parameters, and best of 
> all, the management is a all web based. To the windows users , the 
> just see a pretty folder :)

I prefer to not use swat; it messes up the formatting of your smb.conf 
file.

>
> Later
>
> Vic Herrera
> www.webdatainc.com
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Smith" <x at xman.org>
> To: "Steve" <steve at fpig.net>
> Cc: <lula at lula.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 11:44 PM
> Subject: Re: [Lula] replace win 2003 adc server
>
>
>> Steve wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Group,
>>>
>>> One of the advantages of the windoze ADC is that you can apply security
>>> settings to many clients at once using Group Policy Objects (yeah, 
>>> yeah,
>>> assuming they work).  Does anyone know of a way to centrally manage 
>>> many
>>> windows clients while using linux/samba?
>>>
>>>
>> I'm missing something I think. Why can't you do this with LDAP?
>>
>> --Chris
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Chris,
LDAP will centralize logons.  That's not the problem.  Windoze Group 
Policy Objects allow you to push down or overwrite certain registry 
settings on many clients at once.  AFAIK ldap will not do this, with or 
without samba.

Thanks for all your suggestions,
Steve G

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