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[Dave M. Sullivan]

Ah, yeah.. that's what I thought. You have to configure local machine
group policies.



On 8/28/06, Myles Braithwaite <myles at monkeyinyoursoul.com> wrote:
> You can do some what group policies. But everything has to be configured
> on the individuals workstation. You have access to all user and groups
> on the linux server.
>
> Dave M. Sullivan wrote:
> > So you just use it for single sign-on services, but not group policies and such?
> > I've been reading a lot into Kerberos/LDAP and Active Directory/Linux
> > integration, but as far as I can tell, you can't do group policies
> > with Linux.
> >
> > On 8/28/06, Myles Braithwaite <myles at monkeyinyoursoul.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Not full Active Directory but partial. It's backend is LDAP.
> >>
> >> Dave Sullivan wrote:
> >>
> >>> Are you running an Active Directory domain controller on Ubuntu, or just
> >>> a Kerberos realm?
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, 2006-28-08 at 04:05 -0400, Myles Braithwaite wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> What about ClamAV http://www.clamav.net/? It will find Mac OS X (yes
> >>>> there are Apple Virus) and Windows. I am currently using at work on
> >>>> our Domain Controller running Ubuntu 5.10.
> >>>>
> >>>> Greg Tees wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> Hasn't AVG released their antivirus for linux, anyways?  Or are planning to?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> But yeah, waste of time if you ask me, unless you intend to scan files that are
> >>>>> Windows-bound.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 04:41:40PM -0400, Dave Sullivan wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> If you download or order the 6.06 LTS CD, it comes with a feature called
> >>>>>> LiveCD which lets you play around with it and try it before actually
> >>>>>> installing it. The LiveCD is a fully functional system that doesn't
> >>>>>> modify your hard drive at all.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> For your printer and digital camera, unless you have some obscure make
> >>>>>> and model, it will most likely work. Again, this is the benefit of the
> >>>>>> Live CD.. you can test them out before installing it for good. Ubuntu
> >>>>>> comes installed with OpenOffice.org, which is a functional Office suite
> >>>>>> much like Microsoft Office, and supports all of Microsoft's file
> >>>>>> formats, including doc, xls and ppt. There is also an Adobe Reader for
> >>>>>> linux, or you can use open source PDF readers. There's a selection of
> >>>>>> programs that will do this.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> As for screensavers and antivirus.. I'm not sure about screensavers. The
> >>>>>> ones that you use on Windows will most likely be incompatible with
> >>>>>> Linux, since its a different system. However, there may be an equivilent
> >>>>>> software that does the same thing. It just requires a bit of
> >>>>>> browsing/asking around. Antivirus isn't typically needed on a Linux
> >>>>>> system. There are free, open source antivirus software packages, but you
> >>>>>> generally don't have to worry about viruses or other malware.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Hope this helps. If you have any other questions, feel free to ask.
> >>>>>> That's what we're here for.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> --
> >>>>>> Dave Sullivan <demsullivan at gmail.com>
> >>>>>> http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DaveSullivan
> >>>>>> http://daves-pgp-key.doesntexist.com/
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On Sun, 2006-27-08 at 11:46 -0600, james kreutz wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> G'day
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> My name is James and I'm considering switching to a linux O/S (ubuntu
> >>>>>>> ver.6.06)
> >>>>>>> Because all I've ever known is MS(windows) I'm concerned about
> >>>>>>> How this will affect my programs and applications (please excuse me if
> >>>>>>> I do not use the correct terminology)
> >>>>>>> By programs and applications I'm refering to things like my screen
> >>>>>>> saver(webshots), antivirus(avg)
> >>>>>>> my printer and digital camera. Also what about opening things like
> >>>>>>> Power Point and PDF documemts.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Here is my contact info;
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Email          Borniert at gmail.com
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Phone         (403) 560 - 2696
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> If someone is willing to send me their phone # I would be more than
> >>>>>>> happy
> >>>>>>> to pay any long distance charges. Perhaps their is someone In the
> >>>>>>> Calgary,Alberta
> >>>>>>> area that I could contact to get a better feel for Linux
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> --
> >>>>>>> There are friends we can live with, and
> >>>>>>> Great friends we can't live with out.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> James & Apache
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
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> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
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