[ale] ALE MONTHLY MEETING for THURSDAY, 1/9/03

[Geoffrey]

Aaron, sorry I didn't post an announcement.  Would you like to do this 
in the future?

aaron wrote:
> January's main meeting of ALE is set for the usual
> 2nd Thursday of the month, January 9th, 7:30 pm,
> at the Emory Law School building. 
> 
> Our main presentation topic is SAMBA file and print sharing with Linux 
> and our presenter is Troy Thompson from Sonova Systems (outline and 
> biography below).
> 
> As always, maps and related details are available on the www.ale.org
> web site.
> 
> Hope to see you there!
> peace
> aaron
> 
> ---------------------
> Presentation outline:
> 
> January's presentation topic is Samba, a cross-platform file and print 
> services package which employs the SMB/CIFS protocol, the main networking 
> protocol used by Microsoft systems. A Samba server can be run on Linux to 
> replace Windows based servers and provide domain control, network logon 
> shares, scripting and one-way dropboxes across a multi platform network.
> 
> The target audience is computer users who would like to provide file and 
> print sharing on a home or business network which contains Windows boxes 
> while remaining exempt from the "Microsoft Server Tax" [tm]. The material 
> is appropriate for novice users, so prior familiarity with Windows and/or 
> Linux networking is not essential.
> 
> Points to be covered include:
> * A Basic overview of the Microsoft methods of NetBIOS/SMB
>   networking and how Samba fits into the picture.
> * Overview of what Samba provides
> * Live installation of Samba
> * Configuration of Samba as a domain controller
> * Configuring the clients
> * Adding clients to the domain
> * Creating home directories
> * Creating login scripts
> * Creating shared inbox directories (one-way dropbox style)
> * Firewalling issues (Lest You Be 0wn3d by Nimda!)
> 
> Advanced points as time and interest permit: 
> * Creating user-specific login scripts
> * Creating machine-specific login scripts
> * Password changes from the Windows client
>    (this can be a Black Art, but we'll try!)
> 
> ----------
> Bio:
> Troy Thompson is the webmaster and primary Internet Consultant of Sonova
> Systems, LLC, a local metro Atlanta-based consulting company. Troy cut
> his teeth on...
> -- a Commodore 64 in grade school,
> -- the Internet via Delphi when it was a VMS text-based dialup,
> -- AOL when it ran on the GEOS shell,
> -- Netscape and I.E. side-by-side when they were still at version 1,
> -- and beta testing of Windows 95.
> 
> (Yes, he's just a young pup!)
> 
> He still has a functioning Commodore 128, and today takes in many 
> orphaned computers to give them new homes -- much to the chagrin of his
> very understanding wife, Jessica!
> 
> Sonova Systems specializes in business systems analysis, technical 
> support, and targeted solutions on a variety of platforms  including 
> Linux, Macintosh, OS-X and most Microsoft OS distributions [ see 
> www.sonovasystems.com ].  Troy is the primary Linux/web consultant at the 
> company, where he maintains several customer domains from the firewall to 
> the web application interface. 
> 
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-- 
Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net

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