Looking for some upgrade advice

Sun May 21 18:54:59 PDT 2006

Wally,

This is essentially the way I handle it with Netware.  All executables 
are run from the server, but are run on the client.  All files are 
stored on the server.

What advantages would I get with running Server 2003 over something like 
Netware and/or why not run on Linux with Samba instead?

Thanks again for the advice.

Boaz

Wally Turnbull wrote:

> Boaz,
>
>  
>
> The move is quite easy.  Your workstations come with a Windows network 
> client.  The version of FilePro is the same.  Whether you run filePro 
> on the server on from the workstations is not big deal on a hardwired 
> LAN.  It will be very fast.  I would keep all executables as well as 
> the data bases on the server and let the workstations run everything 
> from the server drive if I were you.  That makes maintenance, upgrade 
> and support easier.
>
>  
>
> You biggest job will be to rebuild all of your users and groups and 
> assign rights to devices and files.  Even that is no big deal if you 
> assign most of the permissions to groups and then put your users in 
> the right groups.  The permissions are slightly different than in 
> Netware but close enough to make sense to you when you look at them.
>
>  
>
> You can build your Windows server and add the permissions while the 
> Netware server is still in use.  Once that is done, copy the user 
> files over to the new server and change the workstations' clients and 
> login.  It is a bit tedious but not difficult and only done once.
>
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>
> Best,
>
> Wally
>
>  
>
> -----Original Message-----
> *From:* filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com 
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com] *On Behalf Of *Boaz 
> Bezborodko
> *Sent:* Friday, May 19, 2006 9:37 AM
> *To:* Transpower
> *Cc:* filepro-list at seaslug.org
> *Subject:* Re: Looking for some upgrade advice
>
>  
>
> Is win2003 easy to move up to from Netware?
>
> I understand that running filePro on the server can speed things up 
> given that the disk access is right there.  But I don't have any 
> complaints about access right now and we're working mostly on 7 year 
> old PIIs and Celerons with a 100Mb ethernet.  I'd rather spend the 
> money on upgrading the individual computers and the server hardware to 
> GigE and a faster disk subsystem.
>
> Any more thoughts or advice?
>
> Transpower wrote:
>
> My Windows 2003 Server and those of my clients have never crashed.  
> Terminal Server works great; I can even connect to one wirelessly with 
> my Windows Mobile 5 device (using Terminal Services client)!  Of 
> course I still also like SCO UNIX OpenServer--super reliable and fast, 
> with good disaster recovery tools available.
>
> Regards,
> Ron Satz
> Transpower Corporation, www.transpowercorp.com 
> <http://www.transpowercorp.com>, transpower at aol.com 
> <mailto:transpower at aol.com>
> SCO Authorized and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineering
>
>
> Boaz Bezborodko wrote on 5/19/2006, 8:31 AM:
>
> What kind flexibility would I be gaining?  Not being fascetious, it's 
> just that I haven't really looked into any server feature sets since I 
> installed Netware 5. 
>
> My other concern is uptime and security, but it seems that 2003  is 
> better than I was led to believe.
>
> Of course I coul just stick to newer and better hardware with the same 
> old OS.  Most of the hardware I'd consider (upgrading to a still old 
> Storage Array 4300 RAID controller would still give me an 8-fold 
> increase in disk transfer speeds and most of the database will fit in 
> memory anyway) will have drivers for NW 5.
>
> Boaz
>
> John Esak wrote:
>
>I'm going to top-post... sorry.
>
> 
>
>I am a *nix person almost exclusively... and I think getting a hold of a
>
>Unix guru like Bill Campbell to help you put in a Linux system would be
>
>unbeatable. HOWEVER... lacking the money (and I think it would be pretty
>
>considerable to do something like that...) I would never consider switching
>
>from a platform I know and like to something *completely* foreign. It would
>
>be just as hard to go from being a solid Unix house to a Windows server.
>
>The bottom line for me is to agree with Wally, if you are comfortable with
>
>Netware... moving to a @003 server would be relatively painless and offer
>
>you huge new flexibility.
>
> 
>
>John Esak
>
> 
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>>-----Original Message-----
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>>Behalf Of Boaz Bezborodko
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>>Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 9:30 PM
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>>To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com <mailto:filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
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>>Subject: Looking for some upgrade advice
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>>I want to start planning an upgrade of our company's server.  Currently
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>>we are using FilePro on Windows working off an old Netware 5.0 server
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>>based on a PII-350 machine.
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>> 
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>>The FilePro applications themselves run decently and will obviously run
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>>better if I simply upgraded the server hardware and the network to GigE.
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>>I was considering using Linux instead of Netware, but does this mean
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>>having to learn something completely new or are there some decent
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>>packaged versions that avoid some of the pain?
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>>Any other options I should be considering?
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>> 
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>>Thanks in advance,
>>
>> 
>>
>>Boaz
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