Another nix question, for administrators
Ok guys,
I have a small dilema...(kind of). My deal is, I have a dual boot system here, using windows 2000 professional and linux mandrake 8.1....love it so far... but the deal is, I would LOVE to know if anyone else here is a windows 2000 network administrator like myself, and wants to use linux to administrate his/her network, like active directory and all that stuff. FROM LINUX, not from windows 2k...
see where I'm going here? I am kind of wanting to just use linux as my main system unless I'm doing some sort of ASP coding or VB coding or something where I just have to use win2k... other than that, I'd like to stay in linux the majority of the time.
Any suggestions? Anyone else doing this? I have 13 windows 2k servers, active directory, and about 90 workstations that I'm administrating...and its easy from my windows 2k box (I so want to use linux as my main system, but really cant figure it out for administering a windows 2k network i'm kind of a nix newbie still).
Just reply back if you guys have any good suggestions ok!
Peace!
Maintaining a MS network using Linux
Just to keep things simple, you may be best off using 2000 to administer your 2000 network. But to do some things, be sure to install samba on your workstation and you will be able to access file shares on the Windows servers. Another thing you may not be aware of but find very helpful is something called VNC. It's a cross platform protocol for sharing desktops, which means you can control the Windows servers directly from the Linux workstation.
You can download VNC from http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/
Good luck.