[NBLUG/talk] "Stealth'ing" *NIX into a MS-Win shop...?

irwin irwin at taranto.com
Wed Dec 14 14:20:32 PST 2005


You can run Samba on a Linux server and allow all the MS work stations to 
network with the server as well as each other, as well as all the server 
functions.  Samba can be configured using a GUI.

Are there any strictly MS functions running on the server?  

Irwin




On Wednesday 14 December 2005 02:03 pm, you wrote:
> Hi, guys...
>
> Looking for a pointer, if anyone knows where to point me...
> <ahem>  No, not there.  Been there, done that, still trying to
> wash the stench out.
>
> Working in a MS-centric shop (W2K); some of their problems,
> it seems to me, can profitably be addressed by a dose (or two)
> of *NIX...  Among other problems currently seen
>
> I know that various MS-Win services *can* be set up to run
> under Linux (& other *NIX'es); what I'd like is resources on
> that -- the smoothest way(s) to bring in (e.g.) Linux to act
> in lieu of a problematic MS server.
>
> Does anyone know of a nicely integrated package of "all
> (or most) MS-centric products," and/or good GUI config-
> tools for such products?
>
> I'm new on the job, so I'm hardly going to take any dramatic
> risks, BUT I'm also *the* geek in-house; previously they've
> made do with the accumulated tech-skills of various office-
> managers, administrators, a couple of geotechnical engineers,
> etc... But, those folks have their OWN jobs to do (hence the
> job-description that I'm now filling).  I'm also *way* more of
> a computer-geek than the rest of the shop put together; I
> have only met one person who knows what an IP address
> is, and my entire interview-process yielded 0 persons who
> had more than the vaguest awareness that "TCP/IP" is
> "some kind of networking, I think."  Nevertheless, anything
> I bring in-house *MUST* be usable by other folks in-house
> (hence my desire for nice GUI tools).
>
> It's not that I'm so desperate to evangelize Linux (or any
> *NIX, for that matter) so much as (1) I know *NIX tends to
> run much more stably & I'm in an info-centric firm:  having
> reliable servers will be a Good Thing in-house; (2) I've got
> a stronger *NIX background than MS, so if I can throw a
> *NIX patch on a problem caused by a down W2K server,
> I can easily maintain that while I figure out what the !*$%
> is wrong with the W2K (other than "it's Microsoft").  A
> backup domain controller, sync'ed backup fileserver, etc...
>
>
> - Steve S.
>
>
>
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