[Wylug-help] Help please - Anyone running Linux within University of Leeds?

[Yiannis Gatsoulis]

Running ubuntu on my laptop and using the wifi network on campus. One  
desktop pc is running Fedora 2 setup by the department of computing. I  
think they would be the most suitable people to speak of.

Regards,
Yianni



Quoting Jamie Dow <J.Dow at leeds.ac.uk> on  6 May 2008 21:21:07 BST:

> Hi, newbie here, .... can anyone help?
>
> I'm a member of staff at the University of Leeds, working for an   
> Ethics centre, have given conference papers on the ethics of Free   
> Software and am consequently embarrassed at our University's   
> seemingly total commitment to Microsoft!
>
> I'm wanting to set up a Linux machine to do all that my current   
> Windoze machine does.
>
> I know how to set up a stand-alone PC, and get all the apps, etc.. I  
>  use Ubuntu + KDE at home, all v. happily.
>
> BUT I don't know how to set up a Linux machine to do a domain logon,  
>  where it validates your username and password centrally, so you   
> don't need a user account set up on each machine you use. And you   
> then get access to your own space on the network drive, and to the   
> shared drives.
>
> Anyone done this? Is it difficult?
> (I suspect UoL uses ActiveDomain, but I don't know this for sure.)
>
>
> If this goes well, then my hope is to pilot running a Linux   
> workstation in a postgrad study centre used by a handful of postgrad  
>  ethics students, and so slowly try and wean some other users   
> one-by-one off Microsoft. But obviously I want to test this and make  
>  sure it's robust and de-risked on a pilot machine first.
> The IT guys at the University have been helpful and not at all   
> difficult. They seem to know the story about what's good about Free   
> Software, and support it on a "best endeavours" basis.
>
> But someone who has done this before would be good to find.
>
> Cheers
> Jamie
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