[K12OSN] is k12ltsp samba setup same as FC3?

[Jon Spriggs]

On 08/06/05, Brian Chivers <brian at portsmouth-college.ac.uk> wrote: 
> 
> Rob Owens wrote:
> > I'm just wondering if Eric has added anything to make
> > samba setup especially easy, or if it's all standard
> > FC3 stuff. The reason I'm asking is that I've been
> > successful adding a samba server to a particular
> > network using k12ltsp, but not with ubuntu or knoppix.
> > I'm a novice at Windows integration and I don't know
> > what I'm doing wrong w/ the other distros (the
> > smb.conf files look pretty much the same in all
> > cases).
> >
> > So anyway, for additional samba servers I'm wondering
> > if doing a straight FC3 install will give me the same
> > good results, or is there something in the K12LTSP
> > packaging that has made this easier for a dummy like
> > me.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > -Rob
> >
> >
> >
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> I've just built a Samba 3 / OpenLDAP server using the brilliant installer 
> that Eric & Matt have created.
> 
> The initial install took about 30 minute & the script 5 minutes.
> 
> The only thing I did slightly different was to do a minimal install of FC3 
> and the used YUM to
> install the OpenLDAP stuff and the rpm's from the Samba site to get the 
> very latest versions.
> 
> If you like a copy of my ROUGH notes I made dureing the install let me 
> know and I'll try to get them
> typed up and mailed over.
> 
> Brian Chivers
> Portsmouth College
> 
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What is the benefit of using Samba3&OpenLDAP over using Active Directory?

-- 
Jon "Four Star Gun" Spriggs AKA
Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs
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