[K12OSN] Need advice on network setup for school

[Luis Montes]

David Trask wrote:
> kyle at caliberis.com on Sunday, July 23, 2006 at 9:53 PM +0000 wrote:
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>> 1) Centralized authentication and authorization - This was the main
>> benefit we received initially from moving away from computers that were
>> connected in a "workgroup" mode and implementing a Windows domain and
>> allows for much better control over the management of the workstations.
>>     
>
> Samba/LDAP will be your best bet here IMHO.  It's what I use....one server
> serves both platforms.  It serves as the domain controller for Windows
> (and can do roaming profiles if you're using 2000 or XP) and it also
> serves as the authentication for the Linux side as well and can store the
> users home directories and export them via NFS to mount on the K12LTSP
> server (transparently....home=home).   http://www.majen.net/smbldap
>   
>
>   

Do you use the smbldap server as the dhcp server as well? Seems like a 
good place to distribute load between multiple ltsp server nodes.

Luis