Hi Niki, Have you had a look at the K12 systems available from different distro vendors? It is build specifically for schools. http://www.google.co.nz/search?q=linux+K12&hl=en&safe=off&prmd=v&source=univ&tbs=vid:1&tbo=u&ei=NTQ6TJjAGIvEsAP2j71R&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CDEQqwQwAw http://www.k12opensource.com/ http://www.k12opentech.org/implementation-study-2-indiana-desktop-linux https://fedorahosted.org/k12linux/ Kind regards, Carel -- @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Carel Lubbe Mobile: +64 (0)27 333 6817 E-mail: carel.lubbe at gmail.com Linkedin: http://nz.linkedin.com/in/calli Linux counter #183244 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 2:59 AM, Niki Kovacs <contact at kikinovak.net> wrote: > Hi, > > I have to install a small network in a school in a nearby village. The > network will be Linux-only, one server and fifteen desktops. Here's the > idea. > > 1) Authentication should be managed centrally on the server. > > 2) User home directories should also be on the server. > > 3) Users should all have disk quotas, something like 1 GB per user. > > 4) Some shared directories should be read/write for a defined group of > users (teachers) and read-only for others. > > So far, I've only dealt with local authentication. I have a little > practice in basic setups of Samba and NFS and managed to get these to > work OK. On the other hand, I've never worked with NIS, LDAP or the likes. > > My question is more general, and I don't want to go into technical > details. According to the KISS principle, which solution would you > recommend (or explicitly *not* recommend)? A mix of LDAP and Samba? Or > NIS and NFS? And what's this thing called Directory Server, which > vaguely sounds like it's the right way to go? > > Any suggestions? > > Cheers from the hot South of France, > > Niki > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >