New Edubuntu user

[Lois Castro]

Hi everyone,

I would like to introduce myself first. I am the ICT cooordinator of an
international school in Vietnam. We follow the IGCSE/IB diploma.
I am trying to switch from a Windows XP-based platform to an Edubuntu one. I
am quite new to this and don't know much about networks, so help will be
greatly appreciated. I am facing a few challenges:

1-I have found excellent open source alternatives for most software except
for a few applications used by the maths department. These are Autograph
(graphs), Geometer Sketchpad and Logo. None of them seem to run under Wine
(correct me if I am wrong). Also I couldn't find any open source
alternatives. What solution would you propose?

2-Up to know, we've had a school-wide Vindows Server 2003 network. There are
different drives, one for teachers, one for students, a shared one and so
on. Students and teachers also have permissions set here, with username,
passwords, etc... I installed Ubuntu on a few workstations and it
immediately connected to the internet and detected the Windows network, but
it doesn't seem to be able to access any of the drives. Also, passwords and
permissions are not recognised. As I said, my knowledge of networks is very
limited. Any suggestions here?

Your help is greatly appreciated.

Luis Castro
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