> connect the Linux machines to the Suns. Can anyone provide me with
> the info I will need to respond to the IT staff when they complain
> that it is too much work to support another platform and make them
> work together?
Linux works together with Solaris VERY well. The only problems that come
up here is that Sun doesn't include a full-fledged C compiler. IMHO the
default Sun tools are crap. But if you install gcc and some other GNU
utils in Solaris, they get along like well behaved neighbors.
Also, you have to be aware of things that Solaris does differently than
Linux, like the locations and names of certain directories. Solaris is
System V based, whereas Linux is a BSD/SysV hybrid. Most notable in
things like command parameters, e.g. ps -ef vs. ps aux
> Can we simply NFS mount the Sun directories on the Linux machines so
> that there is a common home directory for the accounts?
Yup. NFS is NFS, unless it's Windows SMB. (Then you use Samba.) You may
not really want to though, since as mentioned, some of the default Sun
tools are kind of weird, so .rc files may have different effects. You
could easily MOUNT the Linux home directories on a Sun NFS directory, or
visa versa, but I wouldn't recommend actually sharing the SAME directory
for Solaris and Linux.
> Would we be better off have the entire Linux OS on each machine or
> should we have one PC act as a server and boot off of that PC? Is it
> possible to dual boot the PC into Linux and Windows with this setup?
Kernel 2.0.x supports being able to boot nearly everything off NFS, but
I'd recommend if you boot off a server you do something like this:
/ mounted locally
/usr mounted read-only off NFS
/usr/local mounted locally
most of the other directories off / mounted locally (/etc, /bin), except
maybe /home
I don't see a need to do this though, unless disk space on the
workstations is limited and you have a really high end machine set up as
the server. Since one RedHat CD can be installed on as many machines as
you like, there's no need to worry about expensive licensing.
You mention that you're pretty new to networking. Search around on the
net for information on exporting and mounting NFS, look for both Linux
and Solaris specific resources. (The techniques are slightly different,
but ultimately compatible.) As far as the client machine is concerned,
it doesn't care if it's mounting Linux NFS or Solaris NFS; you can even
run Linux binaries off a Solaris NFS mount. Considerably easier than
networking a Unix with Windows, or Netware, or whatever.
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