On Thursday 20 February 2003 09:56, Eli Segal wrote: > no, it been used as a file server no more ....
I've made the same move few months ago at my work place. I had novell 4. that was working ( as long as there was elec. ) until some hardware failure that caused it to shut down unexpectedly... that was a sign to move to some thing new.. the options were newer ver. of novell , M$ server, or LINUX... ;-) since I used the server mainly as file-server that wasn't a doubt that SAMBA will do the work. the prob. was with some accountings programs that used Novell auth. to work ( none needed a btrive DB running on that server ) when I finely got the new server ( IBM eSERVER X220 ) I plugged it in to the local net and used a third ( M$ 98 ) station to transfer files from the old server the then new one.. after setting new auth to each user group on each share and pronouncing the new server as PDC and writing startup script to each user so it's shares will be mounted auto. on login my work was done. over all performance are better ( I can point if it is due to Linux since the hardware is much newer ) but I must say that configuring and maintaining the system is much more easier now ( I can do it from home via SSH ) and stability is great..;-) OS RedHat 7.3 samba ver. 2.2.7 > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Meir Kriheli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Hetz Ben-Hamo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Eli Segal" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Linux-IL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 6:42 PM > Subject: Re: from novell to samba > > > On Wednesday 19 February 2003 13:55, Hetz Ben-Hamo wrote: > > > On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 15:18:26 +0200, Eli Segal wrote > > > > > > > We have at our firm, two novell server which serve as > > > > file server, printers managment, and users/passwords manager > > > > > > Which Novell version? 3.x? 4.x? 5.x? the answer is different for each > > one > > > > of them... > > > > > > > I want to change those servers into linux > > > > Is samba is all I need ? > > > > > > You mean "migrate"... > > > > > > You'll need to run a Linux server, and connect it somehow to the Novell > > > machine (thats why I asked you which version). If it's Novell 3.x, then > > > there is a Linux client which can talk to you Novell server and > > > authenticate against it. It's not very complicated. > > > > > > If it's Novell 4.x or 5.x, then you'll need to find a Novell client for > > > Linux, authenticate, and move the data. > > > > > > You should consider a way to authenticate the Windows users on Linux > > with > > > > some LDAP or so... > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Hetz > > > > One more to check out: are there legacy apps using server side btrieve > > (usually magic apps). If that is the case, they should switch to local > > btrieve client instead of relying on server functionality. > > -- > > Meir Kriheli > > MKsoft systems > > http://www.mksoft.co.il > > > > ================================================================= > > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- Yehuda Drori http://whatsup.org.il your Linux spot on the web in HEBREW ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
