Hi Bryan, If they are looking for a company to replace you, please let me know. If you need to find a replacement before you move on, please let me know. This is exactly what our company does - small business IT support on a fractional resource basis (not full time, but we can provide that as well). We support Windows 2000/2003/XP, Linux (RH, Debian, SuSE) and Solaris. Cheers, George Toft, CISSP, MSIS AGD,LLC www.agdllc.com 623-203-1760 When was the last time you backed up your business data? Excellent! When did you verify that your backups actually worked? Bryan.ONeal@asu.edu wrote: > Thank you, it is that kind of testimonial that is making me lean towards Red > Hat. And since I am making them purchase a support package, it should be even > easier. And before people push Cent OS (which I have used and enjoyed) let me say, > 1) I am the only Linux knowledgeable person in the company, > 2) I am currently their only IT staff, > 3) I have my degree in, and was hired for, Accounting… not IT/IS. > > This place is grate to work for but if I were to be hit by a bus one day, I > would like to know they could call some one to walk them trough any problems > they may have. > > > Quoting George Toft : > > >>*** PERSONAL OPINION FOLLOWS *** >> >>I had a SuSE file server serving up a Windows workgroup. One night, the >> >>SuSE updater thing (fou4s) updated samba from version 3 to version 4. >>The new config file was not configured so it did not work. Dead >>fileserver :( >> >>It took less time for me to set up samba using the "old" config on a >>RHEL3 box on the same network than I figured it would be to learn the >>new config file, test, validate, etc. >> >>so...... >> >>IMO, I would avoid SuSE. After Novell bought it, the quality took a >>quantum drop (maybe multiple quantum drops). I found it hung frequently >> >>(SuSE Enterprise Server 9 and SuSE Workstation 9.1). I am not >>impressed. For those of you that know me, know that I pushed SuSE for >> >>years. Plenty of distro flame wars in the archives show that I >>supported SuSE. All things change. >> >>Red Hat, on the other hand, is a pleasure to deal with. LSB-compliant, >> >>well documented, stable. I am in charge of over 120 Red Hat Enterprise >> >>Linux servers for one of my clients, and I have only seen one >>vendor-related problem. RHEL 4 has at least two improvements that I >>submitted, which demonstrates their commitment to improving the >>product. >> >>Biggest point to consider is that Red Hat won't change the versions of >> >>the packages you are using. Any security issues that arise are >>back-ported to the supported releases, but you won't see the problem I >> >>had with SuSE described above. >> >>George Toft, CISSP, MSIS >>AGD,LLC >>www.agdllc.com >>623-203-1760 >> >>When was the last time you backed up your business data? >>Excellent! When did you verify that your backups actually worked? >> >> >> >> >> >>Bryan.ONeal@asu.edu wrote: >> >>>Ok, I am about to add a file server into our Microsoft domain (I hope) >> >> I have >> >>>looked at all the read me's and it seems that samba 4 should handle >> >>the >> >>>Microsoft permissions no problem. I am looking at either SuSE 9 >> >>Enterprise or >> >>>Red Hat Enterprise. Any thought, recommendations, experiences, or >> >>warnings? >> >>>It's for my work so I am quite nervous. I real would hat to have them >> >>drop $3K >> >>>just to tell them “Opps! You have to drop another $8K to make it work >> >>because >> >>>were going Microsoft.” >>> >>>1) Has anyone ever done this before? >>>2) What can you tell me about doing it? >>>3) If I were to choose SuSE vs. Red Hat as an file server that is >> >>integrated >> >>>into a MS Active Directory, which would you recommend and why? >>> >>>--------------------------------------------------- >>>PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >>>To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: >>>http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >>> >> >>--------------------------------------------------- >>PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >>To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: >>http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss