Linux File Server in an Microsoft Domain

[George Toft]

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 at 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 at 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 at 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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