Hi all, I have read through just about every relevant post on this site and I also experimented a bit and I'm looking for your opinion on a solution have come up with. I am attempting to connect a Linux web server to a monitoring package. This packages (absolutely) requires a Windows based probe on the same network as the Linux server. The probe itself uses SNMP, Ping, and Telnet to talk to the server. It's a waste to put another Windows box in the location for that one purpose. So, I got everything working, got the probe installed, I see that Ping and Telnet does not work, but hey that's fine because SNMP works great. And yes, its running as something other than root. I have to leave notepad open and I have to have a GUI on the machine, but that's not bad considering my situation. My question is, is this a ridiculous solution? I plan on creating a script to install Wine and set up this service. We're talking about 37Megs of disk space and very little overhead. Can anyone think of a reason why this is a really bad idea?
