Re: [OS:N:] newbie
Jay Scherrer <[email protected]>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Why not start soft and setup a main Samba server? Connect your existing windows boxes through a router (Wired or wireless), connected to a Linux server. This setup would only require nics for the computers and a router to start. The kids would have fun Learning Samba. Jay On Friday 28 May 2004 02:36 am, Will Hatch wrote: > Hello all, > > I am a 7-12th grade teacher at a small alternative school in Vermont USA. > When I took this job, I had no idea that in addition to being the special > educator, I would be the computer administrator for the school. Our school > is small, with 16 student max, and 4 teachers. My room just happens to be > the computer lab. The other teachers, however competent with computers, > are only interested in using them, not maintaining them. The lab was very > cobbed together when I took over, with windows 98, xp home, and xp pro > covering 8 computers on a network. Six of the computers are in the lab, of > which one is mine. The other 2 are on teachers desks in other rooms. So, > we basically have 3 teacher computers and 5 student computers. Being that > I have different versions of windows on these computers, and that they were > loaded with all kinds of games and other garbage when I took over, it has > been hard to make them uniform. Plus, we have a modest budget and I am > constantly playing the! game of trying to upgrade computers and windows > systems. Its a total pain in the rear and i'm ready to try something new. > > I am interested in the k12 linux project. My problem is that i'm handy > with computers, but basically self-taught. Removing hard-drives and > setting up a server scares me. Where do I start? Can anyone help??? > Thanks! > > > _______________________________________________ > Subscription and Archive: > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/open-source-now-list/ - > For K12OS technical help join K12OSN: > <https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAt3GJ7+UFWg+1k3YRArhKAJ4xl6a355c8i8JR5ZRTlocU7d5M/QCeOMyN bUh/eDVQ3QJz+wugDhvsFKg= =FiMP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Subscription and Archive: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/open-source-now-list/ - For K12OS technical help join K12OSN: <https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn>