On 7/10/2010 10:59 AM, Niki Kovacs 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 for simple solutions such as this i use a distro that is designed for this purpose. Three coe into my mind sme server e-box and clearos of these i have found e-box to the the most reliable and easiest to use. Now i have not used them in a purely Linux environment but they should work well..:)