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| 104417 | 2002-12-09 06:50:00 | I while a go I set up a school system where as I entered information on the server for all the students (name, shared folder etc) and then the student could log in from any computer in the school and still work of the server. I can't remember how I did it. Any help or links eould be great. I also need to know what program would be best to use a mail server. I dont want to have to change any of the workstations every time I want to add or change a user account as it would take to long. HELP PLEASE. |
Grant (1431) | ||
| 104418 | 2002-12-09 07:11:00 | Hey I would personally reccomend Linux QMail (http://www.qmail.org) as the mail server - mainly because it's cheap (infact it's free) - which is why I'm going to use it at home. It would help to know what sort of server OS you plan on running (IE: Windows, Linux, etc) in order to better help you with your question, however, here are a few for linux: Samba Configuration (www.linuxfocus.org) - for Domain Logon Server From there you can give users sufficient privilages and set their desktops etc (this is how our school administrator did it)... Also, a few registry tweaks per computer don't go amiss (which is how our school administrator gives us our logins which automatically receive our student email) - if you would like a copy of these tweaks post back and I'll put them somewhere on the net... (not hard really - just open them in notepad and they're pretty self-explanatory) Hope this helped CyberChuck |
cyberchuck (173) | ||
| 104419 | 2002-12-09 08:43:00 | I don't wont to touch linux, there is microsoft windows 2000 server on the server at the moment, however I would also like to trial it on windows XP at home before I go and put it into action with this project | Grant (1431) | ||
| 104420 | 2002-12-10 20:06:00 | Hey Righto then Mail - go for MS Exchange (doesn't it come with 2k?) and use registry settings on the computer to set up stuff like: user@mycomany.co.nz mail.mycompany.co.nz It can be done that way - my school does it and I'm following suit CyberChuck |
cyberchuck (173) | ||
| 104421 | 2002-12-10 20:17:00 | Sorry - should have been a bit more elaborate... By using user in the registry it requests your windows user name.. Infact I lied - here is what our school uses in one (of their many) user registry tweaks REGEDIT4 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Account Manager\Accounts\00000001] "POP3 User Name"="%Username%" "SMTP Display Name"="%fullName%" "NNTP Prompt for Password"=dword:00000001 This is for Outlook Express.. The POP3 Username is the username that the person signed on with.. SMTP Display name requests the users full name from the server (somehow) Sorry CyberChuck |
cyberchuck (173) | ||
| 104422 | 2002-12-10 20:27:00 | if u want to spend. imail and mdaemon are good. | yang11 (170) | ||
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