Mark E Drummond enscribed thusly:
> "Grissen, Eric" wrote:
> > - Ability to access NT servers from my PC for
> > file/print services. This can be done through
> > SAMBA correct?
> Other way around. You can share your Linux box (file shares & printers)
> using Samba, you can access a Windows box using smbfs (part of the
> kernel) to mount SMB filesystems on your Linux box and you can use
> smbclient (comes with samba) which you can use like FTP to "ftp" to a
> network share _or_ a printer share.
Actually, you are both right...
Samba is used to provide SMB services out to Windows systems but
it also includes smbclient (and ftp-like smb client program), smbsh (a
wrapper for letting apps browse smb shares off of a /smb path), and the
smbmount program for the latest versions of smbfs in Linux. So Samba really
does both the client side and the server side.
> > - We use DHCP. That shouldn't be to difficult to setup.
> Nope, just run dhcpcd from the command line & add it to your boot
> scripts.
> > - We use Outlook for email. Is there a way to get mail
> > from an Outlook server? Is there a way to send mail
> > to an Outlook server?
> I believe exchange does smtp (though Bill & Co have undoubtedly added
> some proprietary "features") so you should be OK.
Exchange and Outlook do smtp, smtps, imap, imaps, pop3, and pop3s
(the 's' versions are the SSL enabled varients of the base protocols).
If you need to get at imaps (IMAP-SSL) or pop3s (POP3-SSL) from Linux,
I authored the fetchmail-ssl patches which are available from the
North American Cryptographic Archives <www.cryptography.org> in the SSL
directory.
> > - Can StarOffice save Word 97 documents? I couldn't find a
> > clear answer. It appears to be able to read them.
> Read: yes. Save: no.
I use WordPerfect for reading and saving Word documents. I use
Applix Presents for dealing with PowerPoint. Excel can be done with
Wingz, Applix, StarOffice or others. I'm chomping at the bit to get
my hands on the rest of the Corel suite, like Corel Presentation.
> > - And I know this is purely subjective, but which package
> > would you recommend? Either Applixware or StarOffice. I
> > suppose I could try them both out.
> StarOffice is great, only it is a huge pig. My PII266 with 64MB RAM is
> untolerably slow. My 12 processor Sun Enterprise 4000 runs it pretty
> well over my 100Mb full duplex link. ;-) StarOffice = 128MB RAM minimum.
After all is said and done, there still remain a few things I
just can NOT get for Linux. Thinks like the Delorme mapping/gps software
or TurboTax. Thanks to vmware, I can now run all of this in a WindowsNT
virtual machine, thus relegating the last few stragglers (and WindowsNT)
to the status of buggy utilities... :-)
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