Have you messed around with winbind at all? I found it somewhat useful for working with AD and linux machines. Might make the authentication peice of the shared mountpoint stuff a little easier?<br><br>Ned Williams<br><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 9:49 AM, <<a href="mailto:krwatson@cc.gatech.edu">krwatson@cc.gatech.edu</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">> -----Original Message-----<br>
> From: <a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org">ale-bounces@ale.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org">ale-bounces@ale.org</a>] On Behalf Of Jeff<br>
> Lightner<br>
> Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 09:35<br>
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</div><div class="Ih2E3d">> Subject: Re: [ale] Linspire chairman thinks desktop Linux is futile<br>
><br>
> The main problem is shops that primarily use Windows for the desktop<br>
> have, not surprisingly, Windows admins who have little or no clue about<br>
> Linux and don't really want to learn.<br>
><br>
> Unless an organization is willing to dump not only existing technology<br>
> but existing admins (or do significant retraining of the latter) the<br>
> hurdles to switching are fairly large. Add to this the veiled threat<br>
> that M$ has about doing "corporate audit" when you start talking to them<br>
> about why you don't need their support any more and even management that<br>
> would like to switch has a tendency to decide not to bother.<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>I see your point although it doesn't apply to us. All the admins here do multi-platform support so it's not as traumatic. Also most departments on campus are multi platform so there is a great deal of interest. We can be the proving grounds to get it working. There is an old adage in marketing. You don't have to be good to get market share, you just have to exist.<br>
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I've been on the receiving end of "retaliation by audit" (not by Microsoft) and it was really unpleasant. We came out clean so there were no repercussions but it did chew up a good bit of time.<br>
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keith<br>
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Systems Support Specialist IV College of Computing<br>
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