On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, Post, Mark K wrote: > Lionel, > > >From the end-user's perspective, it's better if they don't have to change > anything on their end. If you turn off a Windows server, and fire it up on > Linux/390 with the same netbios name, when the users come in on Monday, if > everything was done right, they shouldn't notice anything different. At > some point in the future, you can consider consolidating the virtual servers > into fewer ones, but that's always a pain for everyone. If I wasn't seeing > too much overhead running them as separate systems, I would leave them > alone.
I'm not actualyy using Windows, but it happens I do have a Samba server set up. It seems to respond perfectly well to several different names. I can see a problem if you have different servers with common share names but different content, but otherwise it looks to me like it should work. Set up a bunch of cnames in BIND and see what happens;-) > > > When doing a file/print server consolidation using Samba what is the > recommended approach? > > Is it better to do a one for one (windows server to linux samba server) or > to take some number of windows servers into a single samba server? > -- Cheers John. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb
