Kevin,
upgrades etc. It seems that cdrtools is one route to
use. I would have to purchase a commercial license. The money is not such an issue, but I would want to be
sure it was going to work.
As Bhaskar mentioned k3b is an excellent solution for burning CD and DVD's. On this 64 bit Debian/Sarge laptop I did
# apt-get install k3b dvd+rw-tools cdrdao
You have the option of creating a seperate group (cdrom I think) for burning - or you can assign the permissions to the various tools during the setup when you first call the application.
I am not aware of any need for a commercial license for any of the above. I would also expect the USB device to be well supported with most of the recent stock kernels. Just as an aside, with 2.6.x you don't need to use SCSI emulation for IDE CDROM drives, which is nice.
6. Purchase and install tape backup system for theMy first experience with tape backup with GNU/Debian was with an old Colorado floppy based mini-tape backup system with the ftape drivers - it was slow, but worked perfectly (restore and backup).
linux box. This may well be a great options, but I
have no experience with this.
If you add a SCSI tape backup you will have a huge array of software solutions - from something as simple as 'tos' (tape oriented backups-perl driven) to enterprise tools like Amanda. I have used various HP SCSI backup systems in the past and don't recall any problems.
And as mentioned, if you have questions about Samba and Windows John Terpstra's series of books and essays are excellent. BTW, he is a first rate speaker if you ever have the chance of attending one of his lectures or seminars, you will really get a huge boost up with regards to networking in heterogenous environments.
I hope this is of some help.
Ismet
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