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Re: [LUG] Fwd: Linux @ School - Are we serious?



On Thursday 07 February 2002 20:48, you wrote:

anyway - the SBS server,

now - we spent 2/3 weeks leading up to christmas trying to set it up -
we enrolled help from a very experienced MS engineer - and a cousin who
is fresh out of an MSCE 2000 course...

SBS is different enough that you are only safe with an SBS specialist.  I can 
put you in touch with several cixen who do it if you want...

I have SBS 4.0a still on a machine at the Practice - specified and built, and 
rebuilt, by first the system supplier, then by me, then by them again after a 
power pack failure, and now just waiting until I get together the time and 
inclination to swap a drive caddy and rebuild it with a Linux.
I fired the firm a while back - their clincial software has never actually 
worked for us.

file serving,  sort of works
Ours works... slower than this machine here, but it works.

so most automated processes fail.

at  works.  NTBackup is not bad.  In 4.0a

print server,
I use a diferent machine - workstation.  

proxy server,

worked for a bit then stopped 
MS Poxy Server is generally agreed to not work right and be lame.

shared internet access -
er - the firewall client (what is that for?) seems to be stopping this,

I used NearSite (www.info-evolution.com £30 ) to start with, actually on a 
separate machine - Win 98 - and now use Squid, of course, on the Linux box.

dial on demand,
NBG  well known

VSS
SQL server 2000
working - (thank god - otherwise we wouldn't be)
Are you stuck on that database? 

exchange server

er... not likely mate - just never worked 
Sucks.  Knowing how to do MS ES on NT4 doesn't do it for the MS ES cut-down 
version on SBS 4.0a (I belive similar horrors apply to SBS/NT5)

I still use VPOP3   (www.pscs.co.uk ) in fact I resell it<g> and the amusing 
thing is that a _lot_ of SBS users have installed VPOP3 to collect mail, and 
either feed it to MS ES, or to just do mail.  MS ES is quite a nice tool for 
folders and calenders, nearly up to the convenience of Schedule+ in WfWG, and 
of course Sched+ 7.0 was still under SBS 4.0a, I don't know about hte next 
version.  (I can't see what you get in W2000 server that is actually useful 
to a SB!  )

tape backups

boss is still banging at this - but usually mutters bad things about it
every morning,
Mine works, but I stick to NTBackup.
I actually ripped all the non-NT components off, giving it a slightly mucked 
about stripped down and lean SBS.  But its days are numbered.  Wanna buy the 
previous version and try that?

......and our client's main servers with approx 11k of MS software on
them just crash/reboot every couple of weeks 

Are they not rebooted every Friday like many companies' ones?  
Sad, isn't it.


-- 
From one of the Linux desktops of Dr Adrian Midgley 
http://www.defoam.net/             

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