-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 26 January 2002 22:54, Alex Brett wrote:
I help my old school out with their computers and i currently have a Win NT4 server with Win95 clients. I also have one Red Hat Linux 7.1 Server running Squid, DNS and NAT for the internet. I want to turn the Win NT4 server into another Linux server hopefully running a Red Hat or a Suse version. The system has to be able to cope with logins from Win 95 clients, deal with the profiles we currently
Use Samba :-) It can provide NT domain-type authentication (at least the later versions, 2.2*(?) can).
use (a config.pol file in netlogon) and provide tight file security
I think the config.pol is more of a client issue, isn't it? If you transfer the pol file to the workstation, and get the netlogon.bat script to run poledit (or appropriate), it should work. Disclaimer: I haven't tried, so I'm not 100% sure.
(something we currently do not have with NT4!). From my
You haven't? NT has support for very good file security, if properly implemented (which it inherited from VMS).
experiments with Samba I believe it can do this but is there anything important I should know. The network admin there is
Samba should be able to do all you want, and probably more :)
looking at Win2k but I want to provide him with reasons to go for
Why Win2k? If NT4 does all you need it to, is there much point in upgrading? (To Linux, there may be a point, but I'm not sure about Win2k)
linux. Also, as a side-point - is it possible to tie network cards together to provide greater bandwidth by doing load balancing or similar?
AFAIA, yes :) Something like ethernet bonding, or network device bonding. There's probably a HOWTO somewhere :) Dan - -- dankolb@ox.compsoc.net - --I reserve the right to be completely wrong about any comments or opinions expressed; don't trust everything you read above-- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 iQA/AwUBPFM9r5dDUnce+EgsEQJE3wCdHZypPs523edH22SSAEcK0W+er1kAn1I0 jypU7oE9iDRG6e6cYzehkPp2 =btVD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----