First of all i want to say hi to all of you guys.
As you can clearly see by the title of this thread i'm a COMPLETE newbie on this linux things.
I've dnl the distro from Mandrake 9.2 and burnt the ISOs to cds. Then i,ve redimensioned my 40Gb partition (winXP installed on it), rebboted the comp and started to install Linux. I want to say that installing it was like taking a candy from a baby. It worked just fine and after some CD switches i got mandrake installed at first atempt! I gess i'm lucky...
So far so good. But after installing (i got the LILO working well and can dual boot) started my problems...
To be sincere the problems aren't due to Hardware/software issues (fortunately). To be realy sincere they are due to my almost complete (to not say complete) ignorance about linux.
So i'm asking for help. I really need to understand how linux works... The basics... How to install progs, how to uninstall them, how to manage the OS, things like that.
I would also want to put some small questions. I'm managing a small network of 30 comps connected to a Win2000 cluster with 2 nodes. I plan to switch to linux on the workstations. The cluster needs to stay in Windows enviroment since it doesn't belong to us and i can't reinstall it (i wouldn't know how to do it to tell the truth...)
Every user as to access on the network several things: the printers, one public folder, one private folder of each user, the mailbox on a exchage server and some folders that are accessed by some progies...
I've realized allready the most of this is done through Samba and winbind (to login to the windows network...). The problem is how is this done? 'm afraid of doing something that could damage the cluster...
Another issue is that i've read that ntfs partitions are read only... If they are and i can't work with them from linux that's a great handicap on my plans on abandon windows and UPGRADE to linux...
Well for now i won't put more questions... many more will arise for sure but then i'll come here again and ask for your help... (if you'll be so kind and give it to me...)
Thanks in advance
