[NTLUG:Discuss] Getting Linux and NT to play nice.

[Stephen Klein]

Performance really isn't a concern, at most we're talking about maybe
few kilobytes every 35-40 seconds or so.  We could've put this on an NT
Workstation with the NFS software that's currently running on the main
fileserver, and gone from there.  But, this is supposed to be a trial
run for examining how we can deploy a Linux mail server since we don't
want to for over the protec^H^H^H^H^H^H license money to pay for
Exchange 2000, not to mention a license for Win2K server...and a
connection license for all workstations, etc.  Linux is more reliable
than NT anyway, and since we're a 24x7 shop, we need reliablility most
of all.

I do know that there is a version of Samba running on our newest system,
but that version is approximately 5 years old as it is, and I have no
idea where SCO hid the config files and other stuff.

The other system is a lot older, it is running on a 486 and isn't even
Y2K compliant, so it thinks that it is sometime around 1976 right now. 
It's this older box that I need to work around, and I would like to keep
both of them set up the same, just to keep things similar.

Add that these boxes are running semiconductor measurement tools
(multiply actual value by 100), and you can see why I'd rather not
tinker with more than I have to.

All that that, and the fact that to me SCO Unix just feels....clunky for
some reason.  Maybe it's just my Linux experience getting in the way of
enjoying the precision performance of "REAL" Unix, but I wonder what
(loony) software engineer decided that everything in /etc needed to be a
symlink to somewhere else in an somewhat oddball location.

Tomorrow I'll be trying to get things fully implemented, so wish me
luck. ;)

Stephen

Tim Riker wrote:
> 
> I know you can get samba to run on the SCO boxes and export from that
> directly. I have not ever tried mounting a smb share from a SCO box. The
> linux samba server is probably faster and certianly easier to install,
> but one less machine the loop should make performance faster over all.
> You would likely still need the linux box to mount smb shares off NT and
> export them over nfs.
> 
> I used to do just was you are setting up with Linux in the middle way
> back in Caldera Network Desktop days. (1994 or so?) and it worked great
> then. ;-)
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