Yes that does help, alot actually thank you. On Jan 17, 2008 9:23 PM, Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 13:59 -0700, Steve wrote: > > The person in charge of IT there is pretty technically proficient. > > We were planning to test all the windows apps in wine first, but even > > if they didn't work in Linux, they could keep the XP desktops and just > > migrate the mail/file/print server. > > > > The big question is... Do they have anything running that they depend > > on, that they aren't taking into consideration. > > Thats pretty much my only worry with it. > > > > Linux isn't uber anymore folks. My 10 year old niece runs it > > exclusively on her laptop. Her mother is the "sys-admin" for their > > home. Neither of these people are really "computer people". My 70 > > something year old mother runs her Neuros OSD and even upgraded her > > own firmware the other night, she called me and let me know... I'm so > > impressed :) > > My wife (who owns a Mac incidently), recommended to her girlfriend > > that she ditch windows and install Linux. > ... > > > > And a few minutes ago I even just found a tutorial on using gutsy as > > replacement for a Windows Server 2003 Primary Domain Controller. > > A couple of things I need to pipe up on because I have been there and > done that. First off the mail server is the easy part. In fact moving > most of the server stuff takes planning but isn't too bad. > > However, If you have ever worked with Samba as a PDC. It is not a > trivial thing. It takes a while to figure out. There are tons of > different configurations like using LDAP as a backend or using the flat > files. There are tutorials out there but there is always!!! something > that comes up that the tutorial didn't cover. > > In addition, Samba can't not fully replace a windows 2003 environment. > It is not there yet. It doesn't fully use kerberos yet, which is > central to Win2K3. Now, it functions as a PDC great. Just more like a > Win2K one. Samba 4 will be a replacement for Win2K3 and AFAIK it isn't > out yet. > > Hope that helps. > > Nathan > > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ >
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