Hi Guys
we currently have 12 users at work and a server
All including the server are on win xp pro
We mostly deal with word or pdf docs.Each user has
access to the server and saves there docs on shared folder.
The manager has access to a folder that no one else
has access to but all other users can access each others folders.
How can I use openSuSe to improve my set up.
The users are not ready for openSuSe but certainly I like to use
it on the server,
Please help
Devan
You can convert the server to openSUSE 11.2 with Samba installed to share resources. Samba is the Linux duplicate of the windows SMB network sharing protocol. The xp client machines would not experience any significant differences when connecting to resources (printers, files, office docs, pdfs etc) on the server. Maybe your xp client machines use drive mapping to the xp server (like e.g. drive Z: ) to ghet at the files. Windows boxes map shared folders from Linux to drives like X: \ etc just as if it was a windows server.
You can experiment with servers by installing a Suse/Samba Local Master Browser in your Workgroup environment, to get used to the Linux software before converting the xp server.
There’s a stepped approach available for learning and implementing.
Read / try these tutorials in order:
Samba and Suse: HowTo Set up an openSUSE-Windows Home Office LAN/Network. Versions 10, 11
Samba Server and Suse / openSUSE: HowTo Configure a Professional File Server on a SOHO LAN
Printer Sharing: Samba Print Server for Suse/openSUSE Linux & Windows Clients
That should make you more familiar with the possibilities
Just to add to what swerdna said, I personally would try this out on a machine that isn’t your current server. Just incase.