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 <george@georgetoft.com>:
>
>
>>*** 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?
>>>
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