[geeks] Windows 7 File & Printer Sharing Nightmare

[Nathan Raymond]

If you're already handy with Linux, you might consider setting up a Zentyal
Community Edition server as a replacement for most Microsoft services
including Active Directory:

http://www.zentyal.org/server/#server-features

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 3:05 PM, Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> You could simply setup a domain based network with this domain controller
> appliance:
>
> http://www.turnkeylinux.org/domain-controller
>
> Then serve up printers from this appliance.
>
> Just a thought,
>
> Lionel
>
> On Jan 7, 2015, at 1:51 PM, Mark Benson <md.benson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> Also, putting a small samba server on the network and configuring it to
> have a
> >> higher oslevel could make sure that it is always the master browser
> when it
> is
> >> online.
> >
> > Would this be doable via a Linux + Samba stack? If so I could easily run
> a
> Samba daemon on one of our Linux servers and force that to do it.
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