Linux replacing NT/2000

[tech_guru]

Nice work man.......Welcome to the LinWorld.............A world devoid of blue screen messages.........Stupid error messages and worst of all Exorbitant license fees > >

Like your enthuasim keep us posted

[jamrock]

Feel free to laugh, cry, curse, shake your heads at my stupidity, wonder at my genius, and otherwise marvel that I have actually got it to work at all.

Hmmm...

I have gotten a copy of Red Hat 9 and have begun the installation with most of the default (AKA the Linux Chicken Installation Plan) options

That is the approach I always recommend. Once you get familiar with Linux, you can do minimum installs, etc.

Notice how similar it is to installing Windows 2000 Server?

In the network option I setup the Linux machine as the DNS server as I do not have one presently and I plan to deploy DNS using Linux anyway. Good? Bad? What are your oppinions on this?

Okay. Since you don't have DNS, I am assuming that you are running NT 4.0 and not Windows 2000 on your servers. What clients are you using?

BIND (Linux DNS) is a solid product. However, I do not recommend using it with Active Directory since Active Directory requires dynamic updates for DNS.

You can run it fine on a Samba network with Windows 2000 Professional clients or on a NT 4.0 domain.

If you want to run Samba (Windows networking) you will need to disable the firewall. We can do that later.

JALUG did a training session on DNS on Saturday. Sorry you missed it. We showed people how to set up Windows and Linux DNS.

Now we get to the fun part, selecting all the options to be installed. Now, coming from a MS Windows background (I can hear the groans and imagine all the eyes rolling at that one

Many of us use Windows. We have simply integrated Linux into our Windows environments. We can then have the best of both worlds.

Man thats a long post. Oh well, more to come

Not really. You should see some of the rants that people post. ;D

[cmagnus]

Ok, it's 11:15 and the install is complete. I just setup the display settings and set the system to start with the gui (again I can hear the groans :and rebooted.

The system restarted ok, as evidenced with the green [OK] in brackets.

The system booted into the GUI and I have logged in.

So far so good.

I'm going to fool around and see what I can learn.

I'll post any updates or questions later.

[cmagnus]

Ok, first problem, where do I go to change the display settings (resolution, color depth, etc) as well the the display type and monitor settings?

[tech_guru]

[quote author=cmagnus link=board=8;threadid=1874;start=0#msg20286 date=1066066825]
Ok, first problem, where do I go to change the display settings (resolution, color depth, etc) as well the the display type and monitor settings?
[/quote]

By typing the command redhat-config-xfree86 as root or from the GUI go System Settings ----> Display

[cmagnus]

Thanks, trying it now but have two questions:

1. Are the desktop environments (KDE, Gnome, etc.) normaly slow? (No windows quips please ;D)

2. The setting right now is 1024X768 but the visual resolution looks 640X480. The icons are huge and so is ths task bar (it is called a task bar in Linux right? ???)

[cmagnus]

[quote author=jamrock link=board=8;threadid=1874;start=0#msg20259 date=1066060328]
Hmmm...That is the approach I always recommend. Once you get familiar with Linux, you can do minimum installs, etc.

Notice how similar it is to installing Windows 2000 Server?Okay. Since you don't have DNS, I am assuming that you are running NT 4.0 and not Windows 2000 on your servers. What clients are you using?

BIND (Linux DNS) is a solid product. However, I do not recommend using it with Active Directory since Active Directory requires dynamic updates for DNS.

You can run it fine on a Samba network with Windows 2000 Professional clients or on a NT 4.0 domain.

If you want to run Samba (Windows networking) you will need to disable the firewall. We can do that later.

JALUG did a training session on DNS on Saturday. Sorry you missed it. We showed people how to set up Windows and Linux DNS.Many of us use Windows. We have simply integrated Linux into our Windows environments. We can then have the best of both worlds.Not really. You should see some of the rants that people post. ;D
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Ok here goes:

1. The installation is pretty similar to a MS install if you use the GUI interface. Not sure how it would be otherwise and am too chicken to find out ;D

2. We are using NT4 and WINS for name resolution.

3. My clients are a mix of 98, me ;D, 2000 Pro, and XP Pro

I have also just sorted out a major problem with the Linux machine. I tried pinging the machine from other PC's but got no response so I checked all the network settings and anything else that I thought could be causing this but no luck ???. Well a little birdy said "check the back of the machine" where I found the problem. The copper conductive signal transfer device AKA the patch cable was not connected ;D.

Goes to show that sometimes the simple solution is often the correct solution 8)

Anyway, I got the resolution problem sorted out and I even managed to get the browser on the Linux machine to see the internet through my ISA server so I know the network is functioning properly.

Well, back to exploring. I will post as I go along.

[cmagnus]

Ok guys, two questions:

1. How can I get into the Linux machine remotely and can I hvae a gui interface for remote use as well?

2. How can I create a dual boot machine?

[willy]

i dont know much about linux but guru recommended realvnc once when i wanted to access my network remotely heres a link
http://www.realvnc.com/what.html and its a free open source program.

[pigeonflight]

you can use ssh to adminster your machine remotely, this comes with all linux distros
ssh has an option -X which will then allow you to launch remote applications (you will need another unix or linux box to do this though)

if you want to adminster your machine from windows, via the commandline, you can use putty. http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~s.../download.html

For dual booting start here:
http://www.jalug.org/search?SearchableText=dual+booting