(Illustration by Gaich Muramatsu)
I'm planning from scratch network and computer usage for our school (3000 students 11-20 years old). I'd like using a central Kerberos and Coda group of servers for making home directories ubiquitious. Because of 200 MB cache limit in Coda, I don't how to share /usr/bin. Have I to plan using NFS for that ? I don't know what will be the workstations. If they were MacOS X or UNIX, no problem, but I think we will have also MS WIN workstations because it's so difficult to explain it's a wrong choice. For them, I think of Samba as a gateway between a SMB-only world, and an efficient UNIX world (Kerberos+Coda) since I've read a mail from Terry McCoy telling how simple it is to use Samba as a gateway between WIN workstations and AFS-Kerberos through the use of PAM in the Samba server. I'd appreciate some advice about this project. Another question, will I have to use NIS, for not having 3000 users registred in each UNIX workstation or Samba server. Merci (=thanks).Received on 2000-10-18 15:11:02