I need an Elmer!

[linux-dEK67BCfn/acqzYg7KEe8g at public.gmane.org (Alfred J. Bird, Ph.D., NBCT)]

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone,

An Elmer is a ham radio term for an experienced person who helps a novice.  I am very experienced in computers but I am a generalist and new to Linux.  I teach at Charlestown High School and am trying to set up an integrated network for my Technology/Engineering Program mixing WinTel, Mac and Linux machines using an Ubuntu server v8.10.  I am connected to a network with a Windows 2000 server supplying DHCP.  I have been running into unknown territory with file and print sharing, with domain and nondomain machines and with IP issues.   I do not want to burden the whole list with the issues but if one or two of the members are willing to provide me some advice I would be very grateful.  If you are a student and want academic credit in the education field I think I can arrange that. 

Thank you in advance for your help,  Al Bird
 
b.t.w. I am a Physicist/Mathematician by training and started working with computers in 1965,  Al

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