On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 13:30, curtis wrote: > I would like to ask people what they think is the best solution for > networking a windows/linux network. > > Keeping in mind that the ultimate goal is to develop a linux only > network (but that that will not be accomplished anytime soon), I see 2 > options. > > 1. Install samba client on all linux user computers and have them > interact with the Windows network as if a Windows OS. > > 2. Install samba server on a single linux server. Map those Windows > drives that need to be shared out to Linux users to the linux server and > then remap them to each linux user. Actually, I don't even know if that > is possible. > > Although the first option might be the easiest, keeping in mind that > eventually there would be no windows computers, it would seem more > sensible to maintain and support just NFS among the Linux users.
What do you want things to look like when the office has migrated totally to Linux? A P2P network, or most data served from, well, a central server? Seems to me that that should indicate whether you choose options 1 or 2. -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org:81 | | | | "(Women are) like compilers. They take simple statements | | and make them into big productions." | | Pitr Dubovitch | +------------------------------------------------------------+
