This is a pretty good idea, but it's not as easy as it seems. Windows networking and domain control/authentification is a beast with the number of the devil... (hope i don't offend anyone religious) And samba is an awesome and complex bridge, that connects the lair of the devil with the divine glow on the other side that says UNIX. (ok, i got carried away)
In other words: "just use swat and you'll get it all working in a jiffy" is just imho going to get somebody in trouble. First of all, because swat is not exactly what i would call a "great administration tool" (i tried using it a couple of times and it did everything but work properly) and second: samba offers so many configuration options, that one must have a pretty damn good idea of what he's doing in order to do it right. Now i don't want this to seem like against-samba attitudes, all i'm saying that samba is really great, but it requires quite a lot of knowledge of both the windows networking principles and of samba configuration options. I think that a thorough study of the "Samba project documentation" is the only right think to do, before making any decisions. http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf Good luck switching to samba...if you get it right, i am _positive_ that you (and your management) will not regret saying goodbye to billgate$$oft. ever. On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 05:31:54 +0600 (LKT) Grendel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually I would advice the original poster to try out samba+linux on > one of the machines, just install it well and the management will now > know anything, it will be all transparent for them. Just migrate first > a small NT server box to linux and see its performance if you like it > you can tell your boss that "It is not running xp, but linux and it is > stable and we will save thousands of dollars for licensing if we use > linux" then when he is happy you can slowly migrate the other boxes. > > Go ahead and install linux and samba+swat, you can use the swat(samba > web administration tool) to easily setup your printer and shares for > the box). -- GPG public keys available at pgp.mit.edu
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