[Cialug] Linux in an AD environment

[Chris K.]

I'll drag this further off topic.  It's even worse when there is no 
floppy, yet the hardware vendor insists on sending firmware upgrades on 
a floppy.  Firmware you need to even start a cd/network based 
installation of linux/windows/other.

We (meaning me) finally bought a usb floppy just for that sort of thing.

Nathan C. Smith wrote:
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>> So my questions to the more learned out there in this group are:
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>> A)     I know that I will need to have Samba on the box, correct?
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>> B)      How easy do the different distros of Linux see and 
>> load SATA RAID adapters?  With W2K3, you hit the F6 key, load 
>> your driver disk (still a floppy!), and it's happy and keeps 
>> going.  How does that work with Linux?
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>> C)      I am most comfortable so far with Ubuntu and Fedora.  
>> Not trying to start an OS war, please.  Just looking for 
>> input as to the viability of making either of these work as a 
>> file server that my Windows clients can see and use, with 
>> correct permissions.
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> If it were me, (A man's got to know his limitations, and I have quite a few)
> I would start with
> Just getting the OS installed and sharing a folder with Windows.  From there
> move on to AD integration 
> Which may require some reading and re-installations to perfect your skills.
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> Or use one of the distros already mentioned.  OpenFiler is very slick.
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> Interesting that you mention f6 and driver floppies.  It is very hard to
> install Windows on a machine with no floppy when a driver is required for
> the Disk subsystem.  That is amazingly irritating.  How long have OS X and
> Linus supported alternate installations?  </rant>
>
> -Nate
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