#81011 - 2002-07-08 01:00 PM
Re: KXRPC Service for linux Servers
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Darren_W
Hey THIS is FUN
Registered: 2001-10-10
Posts: 208
Loc: Bristol, England
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Hi,
Removing W9x pc's
This is a primary school so an upgrade to the os would be not possible due to funding.
Functionality I would like
I have a few calls to other kix scripts, things for groups and users which keep giving out errors saying they can't find the kxrpc service, so I map drives etc by user.
posix-acl
I use normal security within samba in combination with general linux file securuty chmod etc.
From this maual
I think Richard is on the right lines, sure it is only a few lines of C.
Darren
[ 08 July 2002, 13:05: Message edited by: Darren ]
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#81020 - 2002-08-02 08:16 AM
Re: KXRPC Service for linux Servers
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MCA
KiX Supporter
Registered: 2000-04-28
Posts: 5152
Loc: Netherlands, EU
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Dear,
On the WWW we find an article which handles about Kixtart & Linux.
quote:
Login scripts using Kixtart
One of the things former Novell network administrators miss when they migrate to
NT servers is the ability to run login scripts of the sort that Netware makes a-
vailable. The original design philosophy behind NT server envisaged that login
scripts would be dispensed with altogether (roaming profiles and system policies
were supposed to do the same job in a different way).
NT servers (and Samba emulating NT under Linux) are capable of transferring to
each client that logs in a batch file to be run on the local machine as part of
the login process, but that in itself is not enough to achieve Novell-style func-
tionality, because the things that a DOS-style batch file can do when running
under Win 9x on a client are extremely limited. (The command line interpreters
of NT4 workstation and NT 2K Professional are slightly more powerful, and such
clients can in any case run any valid WIN32 executable file as a "login script",
but this is of little use on networks that have to serve the needs of Win9x
machines). This gap has been admirably filled by the Kixtart system, originally
developed within Microsoft Belgium and shipped as an unsupported supplement with
the Resource Kits for NT server. Though not an open source product, the binaries
are freely available for download and use on Microsoft clients without additional
license fee from http://www.kixtart.org/ a site which offers many example scripts,
FAQ's and other support materials. The program is regularly updated to maintain
compatability with newer versions of Miscrosoft servers and clients.
Kixtart works very well indeed alongside roaming profiles and system policies to
give the administrator of a Samba-based network extensive and flexible control
over the configuration of machines and the facilities available to users. A Kix-
tart script delivered from the server but running on the workstation can do vir-
tually anything the administrator wished to have done at login time, except that
under Win9x nothing in any login script can change settings in the current user's
registry, because this registry is initialised after the login script has run
(more about this, and the crucial difference it makes between Win9x and NT client
login procedures, can be found on the profiles and policies page).
URL-link kixtart and Linux
greetings.
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#81022 - 2002-08-02 10:19 PM
Re: KXRPC Service for linux Servers
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MCA
KiX Supporter
Registered: 2000-04-28
Posts: 5152
Loc: Netherlands, EU
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Dear,
Possible that requestor test it in the Samba emulating NT under Linux environment.
Writer is making a point about win9x and NTx.
Mostly you doesn't find much on the WWW which has to deal with other environments like Unix and Alpha.
greetings.
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#81024 - 2002-11-30 03:36 PM
Re: KXRPC Service for linux Servers
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MCA
KiX Supporter
Registered: 2000-04-28
Posts: 5152
Loc: Netherlands, EU
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Dear,
The above link has be closed now. The owner shows now following message:
quote:
Site now closed
Thank you for your interest in a page formerly hosted on this site.
The aim of the Web site which has now closed was to provide an up-to-date account of
running a Linux-based network that was under active development in a large school.
In the three years of its deployment at the institution concerned, Linux proved its
viability as a server and network infrastructure platform and won the informed support
of the staff directly concerned with IT. Sadly, however, Senior Management aspire to-
wards a "State of the Art", i.e. wholly-Microsoft solution and view the success of
Linux in meeting the school's needs as something rather shameful. As a result, this
site could no longer remain what it set out to be, a source of insight and experience
into the daily use of Open Source software in a working school environment. It seemed
better to close it rather than have it preserved as an increasingly out-of-date (and
hence also increasingly misleading) monument to the victory of Public Relations over
technological merit.
greetings.
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