Sorry to interrupt inbetween, but I've few questions... Currently My NT server is providing me following things (which i want on linux also)

1. ISDN line shared by all users (Multiple users can connect at the same time and send emails, within office & outside).

2. Internet acess(browser), currently this is not avl. on my server but I want to give users limited access to the internet i.e. say I want to specify the sites which they can acess...

3. My Foxpro applications will be installed on server and they shud be able to run it..

4. Share files, drives, printers etc.

5. Load common applications like MSOffice etc. so the users can run from there..

6. Dial-up Login from a remote pc...

All the points which u have given below were expalined to me by Linux guy.. Bcos of slow perfomance of NT Server and every week problem in ms-exchange (where we have to boot the server), he told me instead of upgrading your hardware, Go for Linux as it will give u better performance on this same hardware...

Can u pls advs. whether all the abv. mentioned things are avl. on Linux...

Plus I don't know abt. comm, dcom etc. So I don't know whether i'll be using it or not....pls explain...

TIA



>Doesn't mean they are not out there. Also, as I said, I belive we are talking about Linux as a server... to service files, serve printers, run a database, be a mail server, route internet packets, etc. (Things it is very good at!)
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>Set up a mail server that serves 300+ users and is rock solid... Then add a proxy server to it... Oh, and while we are at it, run the companies internal web intranet on it.
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>The company I work for can't keep exchange running for more than a week without having to reboot. The company I have my permenant internet email address with runs Linux servers... and I have been with them for 3 years now, with only one service interuption, and that was due to a spam retaliation attack.
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>>I can only wait to what is going to happen. Only if ms is giving up, i'll move.
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>(Heck, I have a Linux/Samba server here at home... it is a file server for my three workstations an a gateway for my cable modem. Once I got it set up, took a week since I never did it before it has been stable ever since... been up for months without needing a reboot. BTW: This is running on a 486SX33 with 8 megs of ram.... do that with Windows!)
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>BOb