PRO LINUX DPLY,: Integrating Linux to your NT/UNIX Network Architecture - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 1861002874 ISBN 13: 9781861002877

Verlag: WROX Press, 2000

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A guide to adminstering large scale systems offers technical details, case studies, sample code, and step-by-step examples addressing technical issues faced by companies in the process of implementing Linux

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Mike Boerner is a consultant specializing in enterprise level UNIX/Linux implementations, especially clustering technologies.

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Case Study: a Linux Workgroup Server
Introduction
Picture a company growing at a very fast pace, which means that it needs to acquire new computers and update its software. If that company wishes to remain on the right side of the law, it will need to purchase the software along with server licenses to keep pace with the new equipment's software requirements. Now like many others, the company has unilaterally cast its lot with proprietary software. This means mounting license costs on both the client and server ends. Let us pretend that the management in this company is wondering if open-source software could fulfil some of its needs while reducing licensing costs.

For many small to medium-sized companies or departments within large organizations, Linux can be both an inexpensive and effective workgroup server. As we have seen in the previous chapter, the Samba suite allows it to provide robust file and print services to Windows clients. In this case study, you will see a more fully-fledged Samba installation. We will then go one step further and provide two additional services to a company's Windows users: fax serving and backup serving. These applications were available thanks to Linux's building block approach that makes it easy to find new ways to use existing software or to interface it with other applications and produce powerful solutions for the enterprise. An introduction to a software package called VNC will round off this chapter. VNC allows remote, cross-platform access to Linux, UNIX, Macintosh and Windows computers.

This chapter will cover:

* A real-world Samba installation
* Integrating fax serving software and Samba
* A Linux "live backup server"
* Virtual Network Computing
* File and Print Serving
Let us consider that our company has around eighty workstations running either Windows NT or Windows 95. In addition to these, there are a couple of UNIX boxes and a Windows NT server providing groupware services through Microsoft Exchange. The IT department of that company undertakes a project to provide transparent file and print services to the Windows clients through a Linux/Samba combination.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: WROX Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1861002874
• ISBN 13: 9781861002877
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 653
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