Okay,
Let me start with this 'What If':
Let's say I work as a WAN Engineer with a particularly prominent
Government Department and have been able to garner enough interest with
the hierarchy (and a good handful of co-horts) to pilot a project Linux
Workstation replacement for the current Windows NT Workstation S.O.E
Let's also say that I have the go ahead for a Proof-of-Concept
presentation on how well it could be integrated given this could be
offered as a potential replacement for the average Shmo' Productivity
Worker.
This possible environment would look something like this, a
homogenous environment running a locked-down Windows NT 4 Desktop with
Roaming Profiles running various productivity software including Lotus
Notes, Microsoft Office and Outlook, Visio, etc. authenticating to
Windows 2000 Servers sporting Exchange and Terminal Services...
Savvy as I might be with Linux, I'll be treading new ground in various
areas of emulating basic actions of NT in Domain Logon, Dynamic CIFS
Resource mapping, Roaming Profiles (can that be done?) and population of
Desktop and Menu items for equivalent productivity software.
I'm aware of the application support which recently boasts ver. 1.0 of
everything (i.e. StarOffice/OpenOffice.org, Ximian Evolution/Connector,
Codeweaver's Crossover, etc, etc.) so this area is well covered. What
I'm hoping I can get help with is:
1 - is there a way to emulate the more intrinsic characteristics of the
NT S.O.E. lockdown features including some sort of parsing emulation of
the 'netlogon.bat', I read somewhere that Samba 2.2.2 allowed a Windows
Domain Logon at a Linux Workstation (!!!ESPECIALLY!!! Want to get docs
on This!) and
2 - is there a way to present network resources and automounting
floppys/CD's in a similar manner as a regular NT desktop
3 - is there somewhere I can read up on idiot proofing Linux so that
changes would only stick to their NT Roaming Profile (...again, if this
could be done) and not to the system.
Any help provided would be much appreciated. In particular, hyperlinks,
whitepapers and contacts of people who have been here and done this.
Thanks,
Scott Bower
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