Micheal

I am the Network Administrator for a public school district in Texas. I'm currently designing the layout for our new LAN. I would like anyone's opinions or comments on the best way to go about this. First, I will present our current configuration, followed by two possible solutions. Please provide your choice as to which solution to go with, and if you have the time, why you would choose it. Thanks! CURRENT CONFIGURATION: 11 remote schools 2 independant servers at each school no actual connectivity between the campuses except via internet some T1's used for internet access, or ISDN RECOMMENDATION ONE: - do away with multiple servers at each school, instead have a server farm at our central office (server's include a main server for dns, user authentication & AD; a mirror of the main server; a print server; a data storage server; a lab server to run all of the educational programs; a library server for a database driven program for book cataloging; and a general administration server) - UPS's in place with either solar or generator power backup - bring all of the routers to the central office RECOMMENDATION TWO: - one server at each school to be used for user authentication, lab programs, library programs, printing - UPS's in place at each campus - router on campus FOR BOTH RECOMMENDATIONS, THESE APPLY: - 802.11b (upgradeable to 802.11a) wireless backbone for intranet - 4 bonded T1's to the central office for internet access - all equipment at central office connected by fiber - approx. 7,000 users district wide, of which no more than 20% are every actively using the network at one time Please send me your comments to: mroux@emsisd.com Thank you all! Best regards, Micheal Roux Network Administrator - EMSISD

Hello all! Seems as though there is some good info on this board & I'm glad I came across it! I am a Network Administrator for a public school district in Texas. I am currently developing a plan to migrate the district from NT 4.0 to 2000. As of right now, there is one generic user account for students and a seperate generic user account for faculty. When we migrate, I would like to setup an individual account for each secondary level student as well as one for each staff member, along with setting up a 5Mb folder that only the individual can access on our file server. We're talking about several thousand accounts here. My question is, what would be the least painful way to setup all these accounts & folders with the correct permissions without having to input each individual account one at a time. I would greatly appreciate anyone's comments, suggestions, or even jokes about what I'm about to embark on! Best regards, Micheal