Is it worth going to AD then? We're not going to dump Novell, and neither are the Win boxes going to get any less. I have to think in terms of co-existence, manageability and reliability and disaster recovery of the existing environment and existing tool sets. I didn't mention that I do have a number of Unix boxes that are running mission critical apps as is most of my Win servers, as well as an VM/ESA machine to keep things interesting. Trust me when I say that Selling Linux/Samba is not the route I need to take.
The big question for me is, do I have to go the AD route, or just stay where I am with NT4 PDC? Why?
What do I have to gain from AD? My print & file services are on Novell. The Windows side hosts some client/server apps that various dept's can't do with out that were moved from Novell due to d
How I got to this state of events... Most of my major applications were running on a single Novell server for years. I had moved from v3.12 to 5.1 without incident. Suddenly in the past two years all the vendors decided a stand alone windows server was the way to go and et voila, instant Windows server farm.
Every vendor wants their own server for their app, and the powers that be, do not want to change this scenario. Most of the crap I have on the floor is vendor drive. i.e Here's our product make it fit in your environment. I am not in a position to break this habit, nor can I just go out and replace everything with Samba. Kind of hard to do when most apps are SQL driven or TS apps and a clean break isn't possible.
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Is it worth going to AD then? We're not going to dump Novell, and neither are the Win boxes going to get any less. I have to think in terms of co-existence, manageability and reliability and disaster recovery of the existing environment and existing tool sets. I didn't mention that I do have a number of Unix boxes that are running mission critical apps as is most of my Win servers, as well as an VM/ESA machine to keep things interesting. Trust me when I say that Selling Linux/Samba is not the route I need to take. The big question for me is, do I have to go the AD route, or just stay where I am with NT4 PDC? Why? What do I have to gain from AD? My print & file services are on Novell. The Windows side hosts some client/server apps that various dept's can't do with out that were moved from Novell due to d
How I got to this state of events... Most of my major applications were running on a single Novell server for years. I had moved from v3.12 to 5.1 without incident. Suddenly in the past two years all the vendors decided a stand alone windows server was the way to go and et voila, instant Windows server farm. Every vendor wants their own server for their app, and the powers that be, do not want to change this scenario. Most of the crap I have on the floor is vendor drive. i.e Here's our product make it fit in your environment. I am not in a position to break this habit, nor can I just go out and replace everything with Samba. Kind of hard to do when most apps are SQL driven or TS apps and a clean break isn't possible.