Hi, Win 95 is the right choise. I think that 95B is more stable than 98 and runs quite well on 486 box. You must have at least 66Mhz to run Win98 on 486 box and it's very slow. Another solution would be to uppgrade Win 3.x with TCP/IP protocol. Vidor ----- Original Message ----- From: Jon Doyle <jon@document-solutions.com> To: <jimo@eskimo.com>; <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2000 7:17 AM Subject: Re: [SLE] Best M$ os for Samba +1 app
Windoze 95 or NT will work. NT does take more resources. 95B is fairly stable if there is just a cetain config used. Meaning not a lot of changes, adding DLLs all the time etc. Be sure to remove unecessary items in the Startup ini. If i remember there is a document on support.microsoft on how to diable a lot of things like clock and such that will free some resources.
<<< Jim Osborn <jimo@eskimo.com> 1/ 3 7:07p >>> I need to run a single 16-bit Windows app, and would like to run Samba on that machine so that it can join my Linux network. The app has been happily running under Win3.10 for years, but I understand from reading my SuSE 6.3 manual that I'll need a fancier version of Windows to run Samba.
I'd like to solicit opinions on the tradeoffs for choosing which MS os to use in this situation. The box is an old 486 with 32Meg of ram, (and my wife won't let me replace it with the low-end machine I'd like to get from VA :) So I'd think W98 would be more efficient than NT in this old box with its tiny RAM, but I don't know. NT of course should crash less, but since I'm running just a single application, I'd expect crashing wouldn't be a big problem. It is very rare with W3.10. Is this theory reasonable?
That box has my backup tape drive, which I use when I boot it to Linux on weekends. I've been easily backing up the DOS partition that way; will I have trouble backing up an NT partition? Since the app is 16-bit, is there a preferred filesystem type to use? Does Samba care?
Sorry to be asking all these MS-type questions, but my motivation is smooth integration of this machine into a Linux network, and hopefully there's some good expertise on this list of folks that have had to do something like this. If there's another forum I should ask this question on, please point me to it.
TIA,
jimo@eskimo.com
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