Do you have hardware RAID card in your server?
You might be lucky and have the hardware raid card, it would be mater of just formatting partition.
If you want software RAID, regardles mirroring or stripping you will lose your WIndows partition and data for sure.
It's not simple and here is some old instruction that should work for all systems.
http://www.ambienteto.arti.beniculturali.it/doc/lg/issue45/nielsen.html

There might be more up to date ways to do this but have no time to dig (never really needed software RAID on Linux).
Check Ubuntu forums too and don't be afraid to ask, lot's of helpful people there.
For your samba I suspect that you did not create user.
Even though you have system user created and using same user on another computer you must create samba user.
It's simple command:sudo smbpasswd -a username where username is your username.

Repeat for all other users. They'll also have to have linux accounts too.

After this you should be ok, if not there might be some permission problems for multiple users which can be solved easy too.

If you are not terminal experienced, I would suggest you to install Webmin, it will make your life much easier for administering that machine.
You can use it from any computer on network through your web browser.

I hope this helped.

What do you want to do Joe?
Partition editing or formatting?

Parted is for partion editing, if you have a GUI that you would use QTparted or Gparted.
Formatting is actually very easy, depending on which system you want to use.
e.g. to format partition with EXT3, you use mkfs.ext3 partition

From my experience, it all depends on who is running the job, what is desired effect to be achieved, how the files are setup, etc..

Both methods have their advantages and disadvantages.

In our shop we are running metallic colors first, since this is how all our pressman want it.
I literally had to talk to every single pressman and they all agreed, it's better to run metallic first.
Our Director always wanted to print metallic last, which I agreed to a certain point, but pressman rule, right?

Ignorance is bliss
We are doing it old fashion way.
We attach proof slip to proofs.
When it comes back, it is usually handwritten changes on proof slip.
We do revised proof with clean proof slip and send both back.
Once "OK'ed" we go to plate.

I wish we've had soft proofing solution such as Insite, but no guarantee all clients would use it either.

Quote from: Lammy on September 18, 2007, 08:30:57 PMOK, didn't read the whole thread, prolly will later.

But the whole thing with Linux, unless your doing the server deal (http,sql,perl) what's the point? I mean aside from surf and email what can ya do with it? ???

I do mostly surf and mail and watch movies, but I also download images from my camera and manage them.
As a side hobby, sometimes I play with Inkscape (vector illustration), Scribus (quark-like layout software) and Gimp.
Not much time at home with two small kids.
 

There is tons of software for pretty much anything.
What are you using your mac for, except for commercial work in Indesign, Photoshop, etc..?

EFI has nothing to do with it.
EFI is simply more modern BIOS (more advanced features and such).

There is a chip (DRM) on Mac Intel motherboards that MacOSX requires to be present, in order to boot.
Regular Intel motherboards don't have that same chip.

There is pirated version floating around that has broken DRM protection but I would be afraid to load it on my PC.
It is always step behind regular system and who know what else is broken/adjusted in it, no guarantees.

If price is the problem, get him Mac Mini. It has recently been updated to Intel Core 2 duo and you can use monitor from his PC.

I hear you Joe.
For more than couple of years, Apple stopped shipping Mac's with floppy and I am pretty sure we don't have any Mac's in our department with a floppy.
Do I say Mac sucks because Apple refuse to put obsolete technology into their lovely machines, ..no.
Who knows when is the last time somebody actually worked on a driver for floppy??
I am pretty sure nobody is updating that code because simply, there is no much use for it and it becomes a burden at one point in time.
You are actually lucky that you can get to it through terminal command.

For CD/DVD, something doesn't jive since I've had 0 problems with it.
Every time I put in CD/DVD in my drive, it mounts without problem, and if I put in blank CD/DVD, it prompts me to create and burn CD/DVD, just like Mac.
Heck, I tried plugging external drives formatted with FAT, NTFS, MacHFS+ and they all mount automatically and let me access content.
It even preserve Mac resource forks.

This is not the case with Windows for example, if you plug in external MacHFS+ formatted drive, Windows will offer you only to format and won't let you access your files.

Maybe you have some problem with a system, maybe it didn't install properly.

All I am trying to say is that you can't judge something by having very limited exposure to it.
You have to put it through paces, spend some time with it and you have to adjust to it before you can judge it.

I know that my experience has been nothing but positive, even though I am aware that Linux has a lot of ground to cover before it gains support from big commercial application vendors such as ours in graphic field, if it even happens.
For most of other things, Linux is already there and getting better every day.
Let's not forget that Linux is 100% free in both price and freedom which is not true for Windows or MacOS.

Quote from: Joe on September 14, 2007, 08:48:43 AMIt's pretty fast and has a nice interface. However, it's still Linux underneath. It would be nice to have a file structure similar to what apple uses. Something like an Application folder where applications are installed by default and where you can actually find them after you install them. Not buried somewhere 37 layers deep in strangley named folders. And how about an update to the way drives are mounted instead of going into terminal and entering in a command line string longer than a Quark validation code. And still to this day my Linux share can be seen by both Mac and the PC and it will let neither connect to it. User friendly it is still not.

While it's true that Apple has hidden underlying system very well, it is very easy to handle Linux.
Especially Ubuntu has taken care of mounting and unmounting of drives.
I am using it 100% at home and have yet to drop to terminal.
This was not the case with previous versions but Ubuntu has matured to the point of nice usabillity.
Give it another month and Gutsy (new version due in October) will blow you off with default setup and compiz.

For Linux, you have to change the way you think about OS and applications.
Why would you want to know where your app is installed?
I am not saying it is hard to find app, for me it's trivial but you have to learn proper way, which is apt-get with GUI such as Synaptic or Ubuntu version of it.
By the way app will never get buried 37 levels, it usually goes to /usr/bin or /usr/share.

All I want to say is you probably have been using Windows and Mac for a while and over the time you accumulated some knowledge on how to use these two systems properly. It takes the same dedication and some time to learn how to use Linux properly.
After you nail it, it's a breeze to use and offers huge advantages over those two proprietary commercial systems, not to say they are not good in their own way.