On Friday 07 March 2003 7:55 am, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > I am currently researching the possibility of slowly moving an existing > Novell network [with all Windows clients except mine :)] to something > Linux based. I have about 900 clients that would be slowly migrated if > this whole thing is feasible. The version of NetWare we are using now is > no longer "officially supported" from Novell, so it is becoming more and > more difficult to successfully make newer hardware work with the old > software. > > Can Samba handle this kind of client load? It would be mainly for basic > file/sharing and print spooling...
Samba will handle it with ease. Start with the excellent book 'Using Samba'. IBM DeveloperWorks has a great tutorial on using Samba as a domain controller. If it were me I would try real hard to get the budget to upgrade Netware. Netware 6 is the best network OS of all. But if that's not in the cards, Samba will do a good job for you. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Carla Schroder www.tuxcomputing.com this message brought to you by Libranet 2.7 and Kmail ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
