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Legacy Forums => General Discussion (Legacy) => Topic started by: Daniel on July 14, 2001, 05:16:58 AM
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Gudday,
I am an well experienced PC/LAN admin with bugger all linux exp, but confident.. (!)
EASY questions:
1) Am I wasting everyones time with these? Should I go to www.linuxnewbielamers.org?
2) I can make ibays using e-smith which are accessible from windows clients. Why do I need samba?
3) I assume that in order to get the "nt-style" login scripts, I need to logon to the "domain", which e-smith is configured to handle. The win '95 client seems to do this OK, but no login scripts run, where can they be configured / edited? Does this answer Q2?
and the most embarrasing question:
4) Do I need to use a boot floppy to access the red hat linux command prompt? All e-smith seems to have after installation is the same e-smith-manager http interface or the console.
Opinions:
5) If I know (almost) nothing at all about linux, is that alone mkae it a bad idea for me to replace a commercial 95 file serv / gateway with e-smith, or can I put it in and get it running, then hope that I can learn enough about linux before it dies and I have to fix it?
A quick look over the forums here doesn't show anything too daunting, but it's interesting when the fixes given are command-line and I still can't figure out how to "break out" of the console menu....
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1. Not really, though I think some of them are covered in documentation somewhere.
2. Making those ibays available to the Windoze PCs is what Samba does. You have Samba; you just don't have to mess with hand-configuring it.
3. Don't know.
4. Nope, don't need the boot floppy. Just hit Alt+F2 to get a login prompt. Log in as "root" with the admin password.
5. I wouldn't think that's a problem. The nice thing about e-smith is that if you install it on decent (as in not flaky) hardware, you're not likely to have any problems unless you mess with it.
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Hope this is what you are asking .
3.- Check /home/netlogon/netlogon.bat
this is the standard script login for windows clients.
has two commands one for net time sincronization of every client and the other to let every user to acces a "server side" disk personal space.
it can be edited and modified to meet your requirements.
Windows 2000 clients need to make other changes in the way the lo on to e-smith domain, this changes has been covered by a lot of posting on this phorums try to search, cause I dont remember exactly were they could be.
Hope this help
Alejandro
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> 3) I assume that in order to get the "nt-style" login
> scripts, I need to logon to the "domain", which e-smith is
> configured to handle. The win '95 client seems to do this
> OK, but no login scripts run, where can they be configured /
> edited? Does this answer Q2?
I'm a newbie too but I've learned a lot in the past couple weeks. One thing I learned is about the netlogon.bat......write it on a Win 98-95 or NT/2000 machine using notepad or something. Then copy it to a floppy and transfer it to the e-smith machine. If you use the text editor on the e-smith machine it won't work. To copy from the floppy.....at the prompt type this mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy then you need to move to that directory by typing cd /mnt/floppy if you type ls you can see what is listed on the floppy. Then type cp netlogon.bat //home/netlogon and that will copy the netlogon script you created to the proper place...it will ask you if you want to overwrite....type y to indicate yes. Hope this helps a little.Daniel wrote:
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Thnkyou all very much, far more help than I expected to tell you the truth!
I'll finish up testing here and go ahead in the next two weeks or so.
Cheers!
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Daniel wrote:
> I am an well experienced PC/LAN admin with bugger all linux
> exp, but confident.. (!)
It's fun, trying to work it out, isn't it? :-)
> EASY questions:
> 1) Am I wasting everyones time with these? Should I go to
> www.linuxnewbielamers.org?
No, because they're e-smith specific questions... you're in the right forum.
> 2) I can make ibays using e-smith which are accessible from
> windows clients. Why do I need samba?
Samba is the service which actually permits the access of files from a Windoze machine. Creating an i-bay simply reconfigures samba...
> 3) I assume that in order to get the "nt-style" login
> scripts, I need to logon to the "domain", which e-smith is
> configured to handle. The win '95 client seems to do this
> OK, but no login scripts run, where can they be configured /
> edited? Does this answer Q2?
> and the most embarrasing question:
> 4) Do I need to use a boot floppy to access the red hat linux
> command prompt? All e-smith seems to have after installation
> is the same e-smith-manager http interface or the console.
Press Alt-F2/F3, which will give you a login prompt. Alternatively, you can allow remote access via SSH through the e-smith manager (Remote Access Panel) and use a program such as PuTTY on your Windows machine to connect.
> 5) If I know (almost) nothing at all about linux, is that
> alone mkae it a bad idea for me to replace a commercial 95
> file serv / gateway with e-smith, or can I put it in and get
> it running, then hope that I can learn enough about linux
> before it dies and I have to fix it?
Get to know Linux a bit better first. E-smith has been designed to be run and administered with almost no LInux experience, but it *does* help...
> A quick look over the forums here doesn't show anything too
> daunting, but it's interesting when the fixes given are
> command-line and I still can't figure out how to "break out"
> of the console menu....
It's easy, but like most other things, it's only easy once you get used to the basics.
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I left out one critical piece of info. Do not edit the smb.conf directly....go to the main site www.e-smith.org and click in the upper left where it says "customising e-smith" or something like that and it will tell you how to edit the templates so you can make changes to smb.conf
David
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Try to use webmin
www.webmin.com
which is easy to install and use
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bobocaca wrote:
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> Try to use webmin
> www.webmin.com
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> which is easy to install and use
It may be easy to install and use, but it will also almost certainly hose your e-smith settings. e-smith has its own way of storing settings, which webmin doesn't respect.