Dumping Windows

[Leonard Isham]

On 3/22/06, David Cary Hart <Fedora at tqmcube.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 10:00:20 +0000
> Malcolm Moore <malcolm at whsg.info> opined:
> > Can someone point me in the right direction here
> >
> > Has anyone or does anyone know of documentation / tools
> > to help migrate Windows Server users to Linux/Samba users
> >
> > Specifically : I have 1300 users on W2k3 servers
> > I want to move the user accounts/home directories to Linux/Samba
> > and keep the XP workstations and then in a while drop the XP
> > workstations in favor of Fedora
> >
> > Ok, I could RTFM and wade thru Samba and Fedora documentation
> > but I was rather hoping for a 'Guide for the Impatient' or a write
> > up from someone who has alredy done it - Bear in mind there
> > are only 2 of us supporting these 1300 users !!
> >
> Have you installed Fedora on any machines or are you starting
> completely from scratch? Is this is a file/mail/web/intranet
> server?
>
> You MIGHT be better off with RHEL.
>

I suspect funding for RHEL might be an issue, if you have 2 support
people to support 1300 people.  If this is correct You should consider
one of the RHEL clones such as CentOS (www.centos.org).

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Leonard Isham, CISSP
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