server file

jackfusion · 10-26-2010, 05:51 PM

I would like to setup a server for using roaming profiles and for logging what the user dose on the computer nothing else. I would like to ask would I need to setup a file server for that even if the user will not be able to save files? I would like to use linux for the server but the computers that will be accessing the server are windows xp pro systems.

acid_kewpie · 10-27-2010, 01:55 AM

Seeing as you are looking for an auditing system for Windows, Linux would not really be a good match for this. What kind of auditing are you after? What does "what the user dose" mean to you? You can log stuff to a Linux server using syslog and things like that, but lower level operating system control is not something that relevant to a central Linux server.

jackfusion · 10-28-2010, 01:57 AM

mainly what I would like to watch is internet activities just websites they goto and give them each a windows login with a roaming profile. so if they is a free computer the user can loggin and use it.

acid_kewpie · 10-28-2010, 01:59 AM

so you want to watch a log on a proxy, not a windows machine at all? Well you would want to look up squid in that case, which has a myriad of ways to provide proxy authentication. As for windows authentcation, again Nothing to do with Linux really, unless tyou possibly use Samba for a domain controller.