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Linux & Novell Servers?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael A Worsham)
Wed Mar 20 16:06:15 1996
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 15:25:55 -0500
From: Michael A Worsham <WOR2780M@mb.ssc.peachnet.edu>
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
** Proprietary **
Hi everyone. I am going to be running the following (if possible) on
our Novell/Ethernet system:
A Linux 3.0 Slackware server that uses Mail/News/WWW & A Novell 3.12
or 4.1 Server as well (2 different machines). I am wondering, since I
am on a Novell Backbone is there a way to disconnect from the
backbone of the school and allow the new Novell server to become the
main backbone (hence 2 different backbones: schools & ours
<library>)? The library server would be only accessed via
students/faculty/staff, but the Linux server will be linked to the
Internet via old backbone (trying to prevent an old Novell server
from getting too much Internet traffic upon it <old as in 486DX2/66
with 64 MB Ram allowing 250+ users on per day>).
Would the Samba software be good to use for this application? All
students would be using Windows for Workgroups 3.11 on their
terminals to login to (via IPX/NETX) to the Novell server. Then they
can do telnet (through windows TN3270 program) to the Linux server to
do news/e-mail/www editing.
Is this possible?
-- Michael Worsham
