How To Set Up And Integrate An Ubuntu 10.04 LTSPv5 Server Into A Windows 2008 Active Directory Domain

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dc.domain.internal

Windows 2008 Server running Active Directory and DNS

server.domain.internal

Windows 2003 Server hosting user home directories and file shares

thinserver.domain.internal

Ubuntu 10.04.2 server with LTSPv5

dhcp.domain.internal

CentOS 5.0 server running dhcpd

 

Ubuntu LTSP Installation

To install Ubuntu with LTSP, follow the instructions here.

If your server has more than 4 GB of RAM, make sure you install the Linux PAE Kernel.

sudo apt-get install linux-generic-pae linux-headers-generic-pae

 

Add thinserver to the Windows Domain

Before we add thinserver to the domain, we're going to have to install Samba along with some other packages.

sudo apt-get install samba smbclient winbind libpam-cracklib krb5-user

Make sure that thinserver is named correctly.

hostname

If the hostname command doesn't return thinserver.domain.internal, rename it to thinserver.domain.internal.

hostname thinserver.domain.internal

Edit the /etc/resolv.conf to use dc.domain.internal as the primary DNS server.

search domain.internalnameserver 10.0.0.10

On your domain controller create a host (A) record in your DNS for thinserver.

Verify that thinserver can resolve domain.internal:

nslookup domain.internal

The results should look something like this:

test

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Benchmarks: Doom3 on machine AMD3000 + with a tested on Windows NT and Linux Nvidia Gainward graphics card

LinuxReviews.org benchmarks show that Windows XP outperforms Linux on the same material and same official Nvidia drivers. Windows XP was simply a better job to run games on this configuration.

The tests are carried out by Michael Taoushanis

The tests were conducted with Windows XP version 66.81 and Gentoo Linux using X.Org version 6.8. The two operating systems have received the official Nvidia drivers. The figures show clearly more frames per second when using Windows XP, even if numbers should ideally be the same, numbers higher on both operating systems.

Windows XP 66.81

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