Hi Folks, This is a long note, so if you get bored, the questions are at the end. Over the last few weeks, I'm becoming increasingly comfortable with the advantages and interopability of Microsoft clients +ACY- Linux on a test system and want to extend this to customer sites. I've been using a test system with a Linux server, and two Microsoft clients and Samba to share drives. I'm extremely happy with VNC for remote support to and from each and every machine. In fact I now fire up a VNC session rather than reach over two feet to the switchbox to change the system I access from my single keyboard +ACY- monitor. I'm now seriously thinking of putting the lot in a rack in the basement+ACE- In the past, when asked to design and install a server or servers on customer sites, Novell has been the server of choice - better scalability than NT and the NDS tree helps with large environments. Now I'm seriously thnking of using Linux instead of Novell as there are obvious licensing price advantages (eg free), richer functionality and hopefully the same ability to stay up for long periods (months). Functionality like the Apache web-server and diald-type components also offer attractive advantages on pricing and functionality for internal/external mail without the need for seperate servers for Microsoft Exchange. On the backup front, user utilities like XBRU are almost as rich in functionality, and probably less buggy than Arcserve (tremble+ACE-). I can probably work it all out myself, but are there any case studies and docs around on design and settup for a mixed Microsoft/Linux environment? The sort of things I'm interested in are: Roaming Desktops Maintaining multiple file-servers for users (syncronising logins etc) Design rules-of-thumb for how much load a single server of a decent processor speed can stand - IP routing/Web serving/file server max users/mail server etc. Paging software to send messages of comfort or worry to my pager Slight change of topic - my time-up record on Novell was 200 days on an SFTIII system serving 400 users and 40G filesystem. It had to come down for a memory upgrade. Some customers have kept their ancient but reliable Novell 3.x systems up for several years. Thanks in advance Tony Wells Phenomenal Books +ACI-I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter+ACI- - Blaise Pascal. twells+AEA-phenomenal-books.com bookstuff: www.phenomenal-books.com anyotherstuff: zp14+AEA-dial.pipex.com Intnl tel/fax: +-44 1524 845559 UK tel/fax: 01524845559 Mobile: (+-44) (0) 370 963410 -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-lists To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
