Today I went to Boarders to purchase a opensuse 10.3 book (it is 
Opensuse Unleashed by Michael McCallister) and I was wondering if it 
will work with opensuse 11 (The thing is we do need a book/manual just 
in case assistance is needed in my absence). Also if I wanted to use 
CentOS as the server is there a good step-by-step guide to set up a 
samba server and perhaps application server.


Michael Sammartano wrote:
>
> Nadim,
>
> If you are comfortable with openSUSE 11, then by all means use it! 
> While it is true the majority of the people on this list do use debian 
> or RedHat based products, SUSE is supported by several of us members. 
> Many of the people on this list and others have steered away from SUSE 
> due to the Microsoft agreement they entered into. This is fine (No 
> flame wars please!), but SUSE has been working with Microsoft for a 
> year now, and have made SUSE very simple to work along with their 
> products. You will find the opensuse.org website and the suse.com 
> website provide more than enough information to assist you in getting 
> everything configured to work together simply and quickly. Don't get 
> me wrong, I am "not" a Microsoft fan. I do not condone the agreement 
> Novell entered into, I do believe in interoperability as both 
> operating systems and add on software target a specific user.The more 
> support that Linux gets in working alongside the windows platform, the 
> easier it is for the programmers have it to port additional software 
> to work with Linux.
>
> You will find that openSUSE will allow for file sharing with Windows 
> users with Samba. Follow the wizard in the YaST control panel. Printer 
> sharing is also easy in YaST. There are several Novell bundled apps 
> that will also assist in this configuration. I am running openSUSE 11 
> on a gPC that I purchased from Wal-Mart last year, and I use the gPC 
> "server" for everything, including backup's. The setup is very simple..
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Michael Sammartano
>
>
> ---- Nadim Hoque <nadimhoque@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I recently built a server (a q9300 core 2 quad, 8gb of ram, 1 terabyte
> > of hard drive space) and I was hoping for now to have it as a simple
> > file server and perhaps other types one day. There are about 25
> > computers on the network (24 windows 1 mac). Right now I am
> > comfortable with opensuse 11, but I am willing to change to another
> > distro (I liked fedora but I don't like selinux part of it) that is
> > more suitable to a server. Also there is a program that is called
> > Geosystems and according to the company the program can be run from a
> > server on different computers. I don't know exactly know how this is
> > supposed to work, but most likely I need this computer to have WINE
> > installed to make it work (the company did say some of their clients
> > use linux). The most important thing though is that it must be easy to
> > use (very few CLI operations) because we do not have an IT department.
> > If I do than is there a good step-by step guide on how to set up a
> > server for files as well as an application and maintenance of the
> > server. Also, I might need to know how to use a database program (like
> > filemaker or access) and again it might have to run under WINE or
> > something. I am for FOSS, but I do need to figure this out or I might
> > unfortunately have to use Windows Server.
> >
> > Nadim Hoque
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