Hello, I am going to be re-doing my landlords LAN and I need a little advice.
Currently there is a windows 2003 enterprise server which has a second hard drive in it. The great news is that this pos os is at eof around april next year. I am going to be replacing it with a systemv version of lfs and just bare needs applications on it. The challenge is I do not want to take the server off-line to do the installation of linux. What I need the advice on is, would it be possible to actually mount the second hard drive over the network so that I can set jhalfs loose to install? I know that samba is for normal windows shares, however I have never done anything with nfs and never before have I had to do it to a server that has windows on it. The reason I need the server to remain live, is that this is the hostels busy season and the landlord needs internet access and a number of the guests staying also are paying for internet access, so I need to be able to install and then run my tests at around 2:00am which is acceptable to the landlord. I am going to be setting up a radius server and wifi hotspot server. I have had nothing but grief with this windows server. You are *meant* to be able to upgrade the software without uninstalling. In reality you have to uninstall it and then go through the windows registry and delete all references to it and then re-install. The backup of the database more times than not fails to re-install, so you have to end up manually re-creating all the accounts. Regards, Christopher. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
