Hi Eagle:
Yup--it's more than possible; I'm doing it. I have a network that spans three offices; one in Wilton Manors, FL, one in Fort Lauderdale, FL, and one in Capelle aan den IJssel, The Netherlands. In this network we have 3 NT domains (3 PDC's) and about 22 Linux servers. Everyone talks to everyone else by virtue of telnet and Samba. Linux servers are politely sharing drives for the Windoze workstations, and are also accessible by telnet (behind the firewall, of course, through the secure VPN between the offices).
If I look in my Net'Hood, I can see all of the Linux servers nicely pretending to be NT Servers (as far as Windoze is concerned). Drag'n'drop publishing is VERY nice when you're keeping up with a hundred-plus web sites.
If you want to see your Linux desktops from Windoze workstations, might I suggest VNC, a sort-of PCAnywhere (minus the crashing, I've noticed) freely available from http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/. Someone else on this list suggested it (thanks for the tip, Matt!), and it's working out quite nicely.
It takes a bit of planning to make your network look the way you want it. There are a few security issues to address, but nothing requires late-nights and cartons of cigs to get through. READ first. May I suggest http://www.samba.org for some on-the-loo reading :-)
Samba is a bit intimidating at first because it has so many options. Don't panic--you only need a few basic ones (mostly what's already in the default smb.conf file--just edit your values in). It doesn't take very long to get the hang of it. There are a lot of really nice folks on this list who've been through this same scenario and are willing to help.
It's a beautiful thing when networks work together.
Best of luck, Bill
-----Original Message----- From: eagle [mailto:eagle mantrafreenet com] Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 1:23 AM To: redhat-install-list redhat com Subject: About networks with windows and linux
Hello!
I have a doubt hope you guys can help me out.
I am about install linux in a system which is going to be my server .
Through telnet all the clients (windows ) are going to communicate it.
Is it possible to have all the facilities( like Xwindows) to be made available to them or do they have to do rlogin.
I wanted in future to that the internet access be made through the linux serevr
The other network is of WindowsNT 4.0 and I want such that if a person logs into the network he must be able to communicate with both NT and the linux server and avail the facilities provided by them. Hope this is possible.
BTW I have Redhat 7.0 installed in the server.
I checked that the machines were communicating i.e, the clients( with windows98 SE as os) logged into the NT network are communicating through the telnet to the linux server but couldnt check for the Xwindows cause it was not installed in the server rather coudnt get it installed . It(the linux server) had 810chipset, 600celeron processor, 1MB shared vga card inbuilt into the board . It (Xwindows ) was not getting installled . Any way I have installed sis6326 so that it should work now.
thanking in advance . eagle ^_^
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