Help converting to a new Linux server

[Boaz Bezborodko]

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> Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:37:23 -0400
> From: "Brian K. White" <brian at aljex.com>
> Subject: Re: Help converting to a new Linux server
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Nathan Lehman" <nlehman06 at gmail.com>
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>> > On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Jay R. Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> >> The most important thing you need to confirm for us, though, is *how
>>> >> your windows clients are talking to your fileserver*.  Is it Samba?
>>> >> Netware/Linux?  Or something else?
>>>       
>> >
>> > On the Linux server we use Novell's eDirectory to set up a share.
>> > Every employee then uses Novell Client to log in to the server which
>> > runs a script that maps that share as a drive on their computer.  From
>> > there they can access everything on the share through Windows
>> > explorer.  This share is where we store filePro (p.exe, rreport.exe,
>> > rclerk.exe, etc..).
>>     
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> I think you are in no-man's land unfortunately.
>
> If you were using samba, or better yet if you were using linux directly 
> (1000% better) there would be quite a bit of experience and expertise to 
> draw on. Not just here but everywhere.
>
> Even in the world of netware emulation, there has been a form of netware 
> emulation in linux since ages ago (MARS/NWE) that, while almost no one uses 
> that either (probably no one here btw), at least just because of the fact 
> that it's been there forever you have some shot at googling some tips & 
> hints. It only emulates simpler/older versions of netware, 3.x at the latest 
> I think, so if you actually need features from newer netware then that might 
> be why this was your only option.
>
> Whatever salesperson sold on this idea, I think just about all support will 
> have to come from them, make them answer for putting you in such a position.
>
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A "relatively" easy fallback is to set up Samba on the system and run FP 
from there.  Setting up basic Samba is easy.  The tough part comes when 
you want to add users-based securities.  If you need to find a quick 
solution then you'll have to hire someone to do it.  It took me a couple 
of months to get up to speed enough to get things working right. 

(Part of my problem was that I was looking to get ACL type directory 
rights and didn't realize that these weren't well implemented in the 
version of Samba that came with RHEL 4 at the time.)


FP has no problem running off of Samba and there are a few people doing 
it here.

Boaz