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On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 09:31:08 +0100 Brown Richard wrote: > Hi All > > I need to buy some hard drives. I was looking at WD Caviar GP 500GB. > Are they an ok drive please? > > The other thing I wanted to ask is the pros and cons of running a > network with a domain led server? I'm not quite sure if that is the > correct way to put the question! We have a network of 9 pcs, 2 macs > and a Linux file server. Sage data is being served by one of the > Macs. We currently have an intranet being served by one of the pcs. > We will be trying out various solutions to help run a locally hosted > crm and so will probably load up a pc or a mac with server software > to run something like Sugar CRM. So I wondered whether it is more > efficient instead of having "workgroup" as the group to belong to > whether it is possible to set up a server as a domain controller or > something like that? > > Thanks for the help. With regard to "domain controllers". Essentially a Windows Active Directory Domain consists of LDAP with Kerberos... however, they seem to have been put together in a rather unholy manner by Microsoft (or at least I'm finding it a P.I.T.A trying to get Linux to auth against our SBS2008 "domain controller"). This has been the case since Windows Server 2000. Windows NT, however, played by different rules. SAMBA can act as an NT domain controller very nicely thank you, and Windows machines (even Vista) can "join" an NT/SAMBA domain without any problems. With an "NT" style domain, however, you lose the ability to control things with "group policies" (which, despite the name, have little to do with the "security groups" you can create in an Active Directory domain). If you do decide to go down the "domain controller" route, I would personally not recommend Small Business Server 2008. Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html