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hi mike i was being a bit tongue-in-cheek RE MS products but recent experience has pushed me to it, in work we bought new server and small business server 2000 for our own use - the boss only really know MS whereas i did programming at college and then mainly worked on DOS/UNIX/Progress for the next few years. anyway - the SBS server, wanted, file serving, print server, proxy server, shared internet access, dial on demand dialling to the interweb,
What's the interweb?
VSS
What is VSS?
SQL server 2000 exchange server so we could send and receive emails from our work domain tape backups, RAID 1 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... ...and the results are... file serving, sort of works - but network drives are not recognised until i click on them in explorer - so most automated processes fail.
What is the server running and what are the clients running? 2000 dosn't appear to like serving to 9X under some circumstances, IME.
print server, had to use c:\net use LPT3
Never seen the net command used quite this way, also isn't it usually in c:\windows or c:\winnt?
etc to get it to work - apparently HP have deliberately disabled the networking part of the printer driver to 'encourge' sales of their network printers - of course - if the driver was open source etc etc etc
You mean you can't simply connect the printer to the server share it and put a URL of \\server\printer in the box? What kind of printer is this?
proxy server, worked for a bit then stopped after the third reinstall - anyway, does not work with mozilla/opera (there is a bug at mozilla lodged concerning the non-standard authentication) - and cos IE crashes my workstation web browsing is not fun
Do you actually need authentication or simply restriction by source IP address.
shared internet access - er - the firewall client (what is that for?) seems to be stopping this, dial on demand, takes ages to fire up - and then can not be shutdown manually - according to a KB article this is by design to not allow a user to shut down the link if they were not the user who started the link - and if the link was brought up by dial-on-demand etc etc etc
This is just silly...
VSS working SQL server 2000 working - (thank god - otherwise we wouldn't be) exchange server er... not likely mate - just never worked - kind of worked to send emails to eachother - but gets confused because our domain logon names are different from our email address names. (maybe we should reprint our business cards)
You could try changing your login names, except that this isn't exactly easy under NT unless you have a very simple set of permissions.
tape backups boss is still banging at this - but usually mutters bad things about it every morning, RAID 1 one drive has gone down already - because i have lost faith i would bet that its the OS and not the hardware.
If it's new hardware it could well be the hardware. The drives arn't made by Conner are they?
oh - and the error logs fill up with incomprehensible errors about every week or so. i see the problem as this, active server directory depends on a DNS server for everything - dial on demand is linked to the ISA proxy server which is linked to the firewall software. and they all rely on DNS server. - they are too interconnected for their own good.
Are you running a DNS server, with both forward and reverse zones for the LAN? Otherwise dial on demand with just about any system can end up chasing it's own tail.
and as for active directory services - it is such a confusing mish-mash that it is extremely difficult to find what you want.
Active directory is LDAP, sort of..
also, we have to connect via a router to a network with UNIX/NT4/win2k servers - networking changes under 2000 but some NETBIOS stuff has been left in for backwards compatibility. networking has been made too confusing.
Win2k server quite often runs a whole bunch of services you don't either need or want by default too...
compared to a bunch of daemons each of which is set up by a .conf file in /etc well... to me, it doesn't. ......and our client's main servers with approx 11k of MS software on them just crash/reboot every couple of weeks - we now have a whole network of servers monitoring each other and sending out text messages when they have crashed - (including for all the batch processing which occurs during the night) so the managers can restart the processes from
Batch processing on NT???
home when they happen...fun and it doesn't make us look good.
How much is the hardware worth?
again - they've had some very expensive engineers checking it out - but they still keep crashing. i know the DB's are sometimes very large - up to 12/14GB but this is supposed to be well within limits - and to be honset, i think SQL server is a good product.
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