Title: Week 15 at a Glance
Course: TAACCCT - Open Source Server Admin.- CIS 235 > Section: Course Content

Week 15 at a Glance

  - Read Chapter 18
  - Optionally read an article on using Windows shares on Mac OS X
  - Read an article on using Active Directory in Linux
  - Complete the three activities (possibly with slight modifications)
  - Participate in the Chapter 18 discussion board
  - Take the Chapter 18 reading quiz
- Take part of the Linux News discussion board (for Extra Credit)
- Continue to study for Exam 3

Intro:

Did you realize that there are only three more weeks (including this one) until the end of the semester?   Our time together is coming to an end.   Only three chapters and one exam remain.  The last exam is next week.

This week we are focusing on "Samba."   One of the main uses of Samba is to allow Windows systems to (easily) share files with a Linux server   In the past, I have used this in the department to have a "T:" drive (although I haven't used this the last couple of years).   You can also use Samba to mount a file system (like the college's K: drive) on a Linux server.

The other interesting thing you can do with Samba is join or create an Active Directory domain.   In the department, there are two servers that "control" the VMware environment (they act as it's routers, and is used to create accounts on VMWare).  They are called "magic1" and "magic2."   I configured them to join Active Directory (AD), so that they share the accounts with department's AD system.   Instead of creating accounts on them, adding accounts to AD is all you need to do.   Setting this up is beyond the scope of this course.   Additionally, while I am currently using Samba to do this, there are now commercial packages for Linux to do this more easily (two of them are Likewise/PowerBroker and Centrify).

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