Topic: Looking for some insight

[grattman]

I have been using SME for several years now. I am using it in a school environment and it has gotten to the point where students and teachers need to be segregated onto different servers.

This year I want the students to log on to the domain so that they have storage for their work. I am finding it difficult to figure out how to configure the two servers:
        main server is server/gateway and has staff on it
        second server is server only with students on it - uses main server as gateway

I cannot seem to get the student computers to authenticate to the domain, which would be the server only machine.

Any help is greatly appreciated as school is into its third week and I am still struggling to get this all set up.

Grattman

[raem]

grattman

I want the students to log on to the domain so that they have storage for their work. I am finding it difficult to figure out how to configure the two servers:
        main server is server/gateway and has staff on it
        second server is server only with students on it - uses main server as gateway
I cannot seem to get the student computers to authenticate to the domain, which would be the server only machine.

You can only have one domain controller, and I assume that would be the server/gateway (server1) machine. You will need both staff & students to be added to server1 as users in order to authenticate their logins. (I assume you are joining the workstations to the domain ?)
Then to permit access to shares etc, you will need to add all the students as users on the server only box (server2).

Then configure groups/users/ibays ownership appropriately on both boxes to allow staff to only have access to shares on server1 and students to only have access to shares on server2. Setup an appropriate login script (eg using the loginscript contrib), to map shares on server1 to staff and map shares on server2 to students.

[grattman]

Ray,

As usual...thanks for thr reply. I am confused about how to get the student user to map their home directory back to the student server (Ie: wms-student).

The login script rpm automatically maps it to the server the are authenticating to. Am I missing something?

Will this work adding to the netlogon.bat? Essentially checking to see if they are in the students group and then mapping to the student server.

#ifg students
ECHO Hello %user%!
REM Map home directory to student server if a student
NET USE F: \\wms-student\%user%\home
#endif

What would be the best way to get this into the server if it actually passes muster?


Thanks,
Grattman

[bloodshoteye]

Good morning, grattman

- did you resolve this, and if so would you share that with us/me - I also have a similar use at a school here in SA?

Thanks

[grattman]

Ardugh,

I did indeed solve this. I am just returning from back surgery, I will work on posting how I did it over the next week. So much to catch up on.

Grattman