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Re: Linux to replace WinNT machine?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Pawlikaniec)
Fri Mar 29 20:11:25 1996
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 11:33:36 -0500 (EST)
From: Thomas Pawlikaniec <neutrino@ee.mcgill.ca>
To: Gustav Gurre Kalvesten <a94guska@ida.his.se>
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <9603291519.AA25793@ida.his.se>
On Fri, 29 Mar 1996, Gustav Gurre Kalvesten wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I wonder if the current Linux would be able to replace a Windows Nt 3.51
> server? It acts today mainly as a printer server for WfW 3.11 and MacOS
> machines. The printers are HP Deskjet 1200C with builtin Ethernet. How
> does Linux handla that?
Yes, it can for WfW. I dunno how MacOS communicates with NT, depending on
the protocol(s) it might be doable too.
For WfW, the answer is simple: Samba :-)
See: http://lake.canberra.edu.au/pub/samba/samba.html
Thomas Pawlikaniec
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