linux workstations se NT domain

[Alex Papadopoulos]

Geia sas paidia.

Sth douleia exoume ena NT domain me 15 win(98|2k)workstations. Peripou ta 10 
apo ayta, douleyoun mono 3 programmata:

* StarOffice 6 beta (win32 version fysika)
* Outlook
* Eurofasma

Skeftomai thn pi8anothta antikatastashs twn Windows me linux se ayta ta 
mhxanakia. Ennoeitai oti prepei na synexisoun na leitourgoun san melh tou 
domain (dhladh na parexoun file kai print sharing stous allous).

To StarOffice den 8a einai problhma, mias kai oi xrhstes exoun kseperasei to 
arxiko shock tou migration apo to MS-Office.

To Outlook, siga t'ayga, tosoi mail clients yparxoun gia Linux (mallon pros 
KDE - ara kai KMail - to blepw gia na elaxistopoih8ei to shock).

Dyo einai ayta pou fobamai. To *pws* 8a doulepsei to client-side tou 
Eurofasma mesa apo to dosemu, kai to file/print sharing.

EUROFASMA issues:
===============

- Ellhnika
- Ektypwseis WYSIWIG
- Filesystem (einai teleiws transparent to ext2 mesw tou dosemu h xreiazetai 
DOS partition)?
- 8a paizei xwris NetBIOS?


DOMAIN issues:
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- Filesharing: O file server mas einai enas NT4. Ti overhead/risk yparxei me 
tis synexeis metatropes apo/pros tous linux clients pou 8a xrhsimopoioun 
ext2? Yparxei 100% compatibility me to NTFS kai ta permissions tou?

- Network printing: Pws 8a settaristei enas printer pou einai topika 
syndemenos ston client XYZ na xrhsimopoieitai apo olous tous allous (Win & 
Linux) clients?



Ennoeitai oti den zhtaw walkthroughs gia ola ayta ta zhthmata. Zhtaw gnwmes 
kai empeiries. 8elw na kserw an ginetai, kai se poio ba8mo ginetai.

To 8ema tou migration shock twn xrhstwn as mhn to 8iksoume kalytera, exei 
eksantlh8ei eksallou sto thread "Linux on production workstations" pou elabe 
xwra prin apo ligous mhnes.

TIA

-A