I've deployed Samba 3.0 using the LDAP backend over 2 years ago. It's still up and running and supporting 100 users (Linux and Windows) at my place of employment. To setup your Samba and LDAP servers, I strongly recommend using Matt Oquist's <a href="http://majen.net/smbldap/">samba/ldap installer</a>. I wish I knew about this software when I started. It would have saved me several days of work. Make sure you're using a supported distro such Fedora Core 5 or Ubuntu. For login scripts, kixtart is very capable. I use kixtart to map network drives, update registry entries, setup folder redirection, install software, and to install and configure network printers. It's a beautiful thing! To get the functionality of the Windows Remote Installation Service (RIS), I consulted <a href="http://unattended.sourceforge.net/">unattended.sourceforge.net.</a> To lockdown and standardize user desktops, you can implement mandatory user (roaming) profiles. You can find instructions and examples on this topic by search Google. <div>On 5/24/07, Dan Young <<a href="mailto:dyoung@mesd.k12.or.us">dyoung@mesd.k12.or.us</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Mel Wade wrote: > This summer we are planning on converting our system to run on Linux > LDAP instead of AD. My biggest concerns are having the services that I > need for my WinXP systems. In particular: > > * Windows Updates Turn on automatic updates and forget about it. ;-) > * Group Policies for locking systems down <a href="http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/PolicyMgmt.html"> http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/PolicyMgmt.html</a> > * Logon/Logoff scripts Look at the sample netlogon share in smb.conf and also "man smb.conf" looking at the logon script parameters. -- Dan Young <<a href="mailto:dyoung@mesd.k12.or.us">dyoung@mesd.k12.or.us</a>> Multnomah ESD - Technology Services 503-257-1562 _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list <a href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</a> For more info see <<a href="http://www.k12os.org"> http://www.k12os.org</a>> </blockquote></div> -- Regards, Conrad Lawes PXE Guru