[dba-Tech] Windows and Ubuntu mix

Hello Jim,

I have been running Ubuntu here on the kids computer since Mavrick Mearcat
and I love it.

I also think it is a thing of beauty.  I just wish that I had more reasons
to use it.

I have a client that currently operates 26 computers and once I remove MS
Access from their environment, I am going to experiment with installing
Ubuntu and testing how they like it.  It would be nice to replace 24 / 26
machine wiht Linux.

Did you install a file server yet on Linux?

Thanks for posting.

Mark




On 14 March 2012 02:56, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:

> I worked on a small network today of 11 stations and one server.
>
> The client originally had a collection of Windows 7 and XP boxes connecting
> to a Server2003. It worked very well but after a series of issues with
> hardware and partners, one individual assumed control. Half the stations
> were found to be corrupted and with none of the original boot or repair
> disks handy, there was no way to get MS to help and the client was pooched.
>
> It was decided, being that the costs of new Windows 7 OS disks and MS
> Office
> was prohibitive, in price, maybe it would be worth trying an option like
> Linux. For this effort, not the latest, but the previous version of Ubuntu
> would be tried (11.10); it comes up a Ubuntu 1. The roll out was super easy
> as we installed 6 copies simultaneously. (The client saved at least $4K to
> $5K on OS and Office going this route)
>
> It new Ubuntu layout is different in that its' menus are attached to the
> left side of the screen by default and all system tools can be accessed
> from
> a single cluster on the top right. Active applications still show at the
> bottom of the screen. Once stations were named, standardized on shares and
> Samba scripts, the networking was completed.
>
> One more issue remained and that was to get Window7 station authentication
> to allow the Ubuntu station to share. It appears that Ubuntu does not yet
> use authentication version ntlmv2 so the following had to be done on each
> Windows 7 station (it did not have issues with XP). See below for the
> temporary fix, and NO, I did not figure it out on my own but that is why
> there is Google. Go into each Windows7 policies; run gpedit.msc at the
> start.
>
> " local computer policies/computer configuration/windows setting/security
> setting/local policies/security options/networksecurity:lan manager
> authentication level "
>
> Change/add both ntlmv1 and ntlmv2 responses. The older authentication
> version has to been included within the new Samba but I would suspect, even
> though ntlmv2 has been patented by MS to stop such collaborations, a
> solution will be forth coming.
>
> Also adding \\MyServer_or_Station_hostname\\share_name\ and stations ip to
> /etc/hosts, the shares became accessible. Maybe a bit of over-kill but it
> worked. Rock solid. (Note: used fix IP addresses, though they are fairly
> stable on a network and it heads off any later complications.)
>
> The new Ubuntu is a real thing of beauty and installation took no longer,
> maybe less, than it would on a Windows install...I was quite impressed. (It
> loads and runs very fast.)
>
> Jim
>
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