At 09:51 PM 9/22/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Peter J. Schoenster wrote:
>
>> I'll not go into ms vs unix other than to say unix is the choice of
>> free men.
>
><g> I've worked with Linux and I currently maintain a Solaris
server, so I'm not
>just an NT freak. I just see so many office situations where the techie is
>someone who knows a little more than Word and all they need is
login security, a
>place for office files and printer sharing. The learning curve
to unix is often
>just way too much for them to even consider and NT fits better
with their Win95
>workstations.
What about a neat little program called "SAMBA" that makes your
UNIX machine into a member of your neighborhood network....
>
>> What is interesting is what is required to "properly setup NT". I
>> use it on my desktop and it crashes at least once per day. Perhaps
>> because I bought an OEM version at a computer show? Perhaps because I
>> am using a Cyrix chip? Is my memory bad? Of course it crashes after
>> heavy use with at least 10-20 programs running. Why not just close
>> down programs? Why crash?
>> If I want to run NT should I only use intel hardware? Should I be
>> sure to only run approved software for NT?
>
>The famous "blue screen of death" is almost always hardware
related. The worst
>culprit is a network card that isn't supported. If you are setting up an NT
>server, go through the various components and make sure they are on the HCL
>and/or you get the NT drivers from the manufacturer.
Huh ? Many times (in my experience) the BSOD has been caused by
some program that all of a sudden goes CRAZY and starts sucking
up resources - memory, hd swap, etc.
>
>Now, if by crashing you mean that a particular program freezes when running
>several tasks at once, check your free disk space. You should
try to keep about
>200 MB on whatever drive NT lives on. If you can, move most of your cache to
>another partition or drive. I would also recommend going NTFS
as you'll save
>space, and it offers security.
>
>That said, servers being run as servers will be more stable than
servers being
>run as workstations. My servers almost never go down. My main
workstation is
>running NT server, DHCP server, backup domain controller, webserver and
>ftpserver (latter two just for testing purposes). Memory
intensive applications
>limit what else I can do on it (ex. running HitListPro on a 79MB
log file makes
>it crawl) I have occasionally had a 'application not responding' on it, but
>that's it.
Umm.. On my FreeBSD Unix box, I run a 30MB Log file through my
server in a few minutes while still getting good response on the webserver.
Matt Soffen
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Boss - "My boss says we need some eunuch programmers."
Dilbert - "I think he means UNIX and I already know UNIX."
Boss - "Well, if the company nurse comes by, tell her I said
never mind."
- Dilbert -
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