[KLUG Members] Re: Can I Boot SLES 9 from a RAID 1 array?

[Robert V. Kanaley]

>I know plenty of people who would trust Fedora Core 4 for a file server.
>
>But I'd suggest CentOS based on RedHat Enterprise Linux.
>
>I don't know if SLES supports "private-groups"  but I've found private
>groups to be necessary to support file sharing between Linux Desktop
>applications and Windows clients accessing the same directories via
>Samba.  It seems that RedHat is one of the few distros still supporting
>"private-groups".
>
>-Joe Baker
> Across the lake in Burlington, WI

Hello Joe Across the lake,

Thanks for the CentOS idea. CentOS might be a little easier for me to
implement than SuSE. The original, now deceased, Samba server, RAID 5 box
ran Red Hat with user private groups. And, the home made computer filling in
until I get the new IBM, is running Red Hat. Until I get the money for
Novell eDirectory (LDAP is way over my head), to keep from inconveniencing
my users when I swap servers, I have to move all the users accounts from one
box to the other the old fashion way:  pwunconv, scp /etc/passwd, cat
/etc/passwd >>~/passwd, sort -t: +2n >passwd.srt, vi passwd.srt, ...,pwck,
pwconv; then do it all over for /etc/group, kill the old box, rename the new
box and change the IP address.

Regards,

Bob

Robert V. Kanaley
Manager Information Systems
Agdia, Inc.
rvk at agdia.com
http://www.agdia.com