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linux server and windows platform

Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2003 4:01 am
by theclay7
First of all, I know this is dedicated for PHP, but I do think there are many genius will help me out with my problem besides PHPing.

hello, I am going to buy a server.

Win2003 server is way too expensive for me so I will go linux server.

BUT...

1) Is it possible if I have all winXP platforms, can it communicate with my Linux server, is it difficult.

2) actually all I need is to have a central server that all my files will be centralized. HOW can I do that?

3) where can I find good tutorials in setup a client-server network?

thaks you very much

Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2003 9:06 am
by m3rajk
you'll get batter answers (and probably persuaded to switch entirely to linux) over at ]url=http://www.slashdot.org]slashdot[/url].



however, yes they can talk. there's this thing called big endian and little endian... well whwne the peopl that made the net initially made it, they made sure those two styles could communicate, so there's ONE way everything talks on the net, and they all know how to translate to their own talk. (this is one thing microsoft hasn't tried to change)

there's nothing difficult about it. if you get SAMBA on your server you can even fool the xp boxes into thinking it's xp (i haven't used samba, so ask someone else for more details)



movingon... to centralize.. pick a server, move your files there. i suggest the new linux server you're getting because linux is stable, something windows will never be able to say. that means unlike windows (which needs to go down for a few hours periodically) linux only needs to reboot if there was a major kernel change. there's ways to do minor changes without rebooting. and anything not effecting the kernel merely needs that program restarted.



and for good tutorials... slashdot.com is the place to ask. it's a linux/unix hang out. so is this

i actually know the guy that runs the second one. if you ask something there you're all but garunteed he'll respond inside of 24 hours.

Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2003 8:47 am
by brewmiser
We are a Consulting Engineering firm of about 55 peolpe and we have 8 Linux servers and 60 WINXP machines. Not one glich or one problem!

We also did a cost comparison to see what we have saved. If we had used windows servers and all the licensing that we would have to buy, we would have spent approximatly $120,000, just for our servers. Doing Linux and having a Linux expert on hand during the time of installation and having him do all the setup, we spent $36,000. (Of course none of this includes any of the users machines, this was a server comparison only.)

It is really nice now! So far, no down time!! Gotta love that!!

Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2003 9:00 am
by greenhorn666
/. ?!
I must be missing some joke here... anyhow:
m3rajk wrote:there's this thing called big endian and little endian...
Which has nothing to do with the OS, but with the arch you run your OS on.
Definitions are :
- little endian
- big endian

To stick to the subject:
Yes, yes and yes... You could still administrate Linux from Windows (and the other way round too), share files, printers...

Still I would suggest some reading on sys administration... having the server up and running doesn't mean its secure and by far not that you'll know how to react when something goes wrong!