You
can setup a linux server to be the DNS and/or DHCP server. This
allows
your
Windows (or whatever) machines to get IP addresses and get on a
network.
You
can use SAMBA so that the windows workstations can use a linux system
as
a
fileserver. The press seems to state that SAMBA will be faster than
Windows
anyhow.
The
only thing that is hard to do is to have a 'domain' like you did with
Windows.
While
you can setup a domain using a linux server, you do not get all
the
nice-ities you get with a windows domain (like the centralized active
directory),
and
this makes the 'one admin account on all systems' harder to
setup.
You
will find that Linux workstations will increase the work required by
your
IT
staff as users will need help, not have IE, and other
Microsoft-horrors.
You
will find that RH9 has a great installer, and docs.
Get
RH9 Pro so you have all the docs and you will have no trouble
finding
info
on the above.
Best
of luck
-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of aT
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 1:03 PM
To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: NT domain to Linux ??Hi ,I am thinking of migrating my small organization completely on Linux ,We have a small NT domain controller for central authentication and sharing of network resources .My first question was , what's the alternate of NT Domain controller , and sharing of network resources in Linux ?Any suggestions ??Regards--
Syed Atif Ali
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