Subject: Re: Linux Fileserver in Windows Environment
From: Jason Jeremias (jason@penguinsolutions.com)
Date: Mon Feb 24 2003 - 10:48:52 AKST
Well its pretty easy to use Samba to act as a PDC, works very well for
98 clients, however someone correct me if I'm wrong here but I thought
WinXP Home couldn't be used in a NT Domain environment? I have 95, 98,
NT 4, 2K, and Win XP pro all working at various sites but I've never
tried XP Home. I have several clients using Samba PDC's by far the
largest amount of problems are in the Printing Environment. Getting
Samba & CUPS to play well doing MS Point and Print (IE downloading and
installing print drivers on the client) is the real problem. Point and
Print seems to stop working properly at times for no particular reason,
if you don't intend to utilize point and print then its great. Samba
has some great features that I only wish Windows had, I make use of root
preexec on the netlogon share to call a Python program which
automatically generate user login scripts. This is a sweet feature,
when used correctly its better than Netware Login Scripts.
Anyway I say you should setup a test box and play around with it, this
well let you see if it will work for your environment or not.
Jason
Justin Dieters wrote:
>Our company is outgrowing our current Win2k server. We just use
>Professional, so we can only have 10 connections at a time. Win2k
>server with 25 connections is about $4,000.. So, naturally, I'm looking
>into using Linux with Samba instead.
>
>Our network is about 50/50 Win98se and WinXP Home. I am wondering if
>anyone has any experience/suggestions/ideas/etc they can share with me
>on the best way to go about doing this, and any warnings/potention
>problems I should look out for.
>
>Thanks,
>Justin
>
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