assim falou V O Y A G E R (em 17/01/2001): > > This means that even if I configure samba on > StartOffice Server (Running Linux) and Windows XX computers > can list binaries on that server, these Windows XX would not > be able to run Star Office. This means that windos machines > would not be able to use this server as office server. > So it may be concluded that StartOffice can not be use > in Hetrogenous LAN set up. > > Am I right???? > .. No! If you install the Windows version of StarOffice on the Samba server, your Windows computers will definitely be able to run it from the server. Of course then your Linux stations won't be able to run StarOffice. What you have to do if you want both environments to work seamlessly is to install on the server both the Linux and the Windows versions of StarOffice, export each to its own target audience and set up a filesystem to be accessed by both the Linux and the Windows stations. Note that these are actually 2 totally different problems... 1) set up some kind of application server from which your stations will get their binaries and 2) set up a central repository where all stations will read and write their data files. Of course both services can be provided by the same hardware, but they should be approached as different problems which might have different solutions. The important thing is, no matter which StarOffice binary you run (Windows or Linux (or solaris or anything else)), the data files are perfectly interchangeable, so StarOffice can definitely be used in a heterogeneous LAN set up. HTH -- Jorge R. Csapo -------------------------------------------------- /"\ \ / CAMPANHA DA FITA ASCII - CONTRA MAIL HTML X ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN - AGAINST HTML MAIL / \ -------------------------------------------------- http://www.completo.com.br/~jorge =========================================== With a PC, I always felt limited by the software available. On Unix, I am limited only by my knowledge. --Peter J. Schoenster - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
