[K12OSN] RE SME Server Authentication

["Terrell Prudé Jr."]

That's like saying that you can take a secretary who "knows Windows" and
have her set up a domain forest for your enterprise. Probably not going
to work out too well.

You need to know what you're doing before you do it, regardless of which
platform you're using. If you don't, then bring in someone who does. The
"point 'n' click just like XP" mentality simply doesn't cut it on
networks of any decent size. This is the same mentality of the "helpful"
people (read: teachers and principals) who bring their "point 'n' click"
wireless access points in from home, with DHCP still turned on, and take
down the whole school as a result.

--TP
_______________________________
Do you GNU <http://www.gnu.org>?
Microsoft Free since 2003 <http://www.cmosnetworks.com>--the ultimate
antivirus protection!


Kemp, Levi wrote:
> Les,
>
> 	It's not that I hate linux, I'm simply lazy. To be honest a lot
> of Network Admins are. I avoid using CLI if I can, sometimes I cannot so
> I learn it, use it, forget it, and move on.
> 	You have to admit though, if you can create something easy to
> use and setup out of an OS that needs the push then why not. I'm with
> Huck on this one. It's the end product that matters the most to your
> users, how you get there doesn't matter to them. But if there is an
> easier way that lets you do more and get more done, and doesn't break
> the budget, well that's the way I'll go.
> 	For example, I used K12LTSP at home because some genius made it
> so much simpler to get up and running then a plain Fedora 6 install.
> Sure I understand it now, but to a newbie in Linux I was thrilled to
> have things working so quickly.
> 	That's just my opinion of course and I don't want to start
> anything by it but I think that I'd have and easier time of getting an
> admin to switch to Linux servers if they could configure them without
> ever using a Linux OS before.
>
> Levi Kemp
> Technology Specialist
> Bolivar R-1 Schools
> 417-328-8943
> lnkemp at bolivar.k12.mo.us
>
> "The only secure computer is one that's unplugged, locked in a safe, and
> buried 20 feet under the ground in a secret location... and I'm not even
> too sure about that one"  
>
>         --Dennis Hughes, FBI
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com] On
> Behalf Of Les Mikesell
> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 11:40 AM
> To: Support list for open source software in schools.
> Subject: Re: [K12OSN] RE SME Server Authentication
>
> Kemp, Levi wrote:
>   
>> Does Group office sync up with the ldap, and email already setup in
>>     
> SME?
>   
>> I'm looking at the demo and I'm really impressed. It almost looks like
>> you get everything a basic office worker needs right on a web page.
>>     
>
> I've always considered SME server to be 'Linux for people who don't like
>
> Linux', and the big thing missing is NFS for Linux clients.  I think it 
> may be possible to add that in now.
>
>   
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/k12osn/attachments/20071120/ddb4aac4/attachment.htm>