[CS-FSLUG] Linux/Samba for a church office

[Frank Bax]

At 07:34 AM 3/10/05, Scott St. John wrote:
>My question is:  is anyone using something other than Windows that people are
>using in an office environment and what is your experience.


I've setup a handful of MDK9.1 workstations in a predominantly Win98 
office.  Linux users only needed email, browsing, office suite and 
printing, so setup was not simplified.  Workstations that must have 
specialised software (payroll, accounting, etc) were not considered 
eligible for Linux testing.  Biggest problem was network printer/copier 
(Konica, now Kyocera), although printing to network HP4100 was never an 
issue - YMMV.  Otherwise, their are no major issues.  Organisation 
standardised on OpenOffice about the same time they were considering Linux 
for workstations - removing problems with document exchange (except for a 
few die-hard WP users).

The main server in office is NT4, but I have setup up some Samba shares on 
both Linux and OpenBSD systems.  I have not yet touched the domain stuff 
inside samba because NT4 is the domain controller, but this is something I 
want to look into changing.  Currently, the login scripts on NT40 have "net 
use" commands to map Linux shares to drive letters.  I understand Samba can 
take on the role of domain controller and provide centralised login 
scripts, but it's not something I've done yet.