Re: [SLUG] Hardware vendors in town

From: SOTL (sotl155360@earthlink.net)
Date: Sat Aug 25 2001 - 23:16:37 EDT


My appologies this email was not suppose to be posted to the list.

Frank

On Saturday 25 August 2001 10:32 pm, you wrote:
> Hmm,, pretty sure I remember samba working.. It was a matter of no
> resolution on the win98 box
> that was causing the problem. 4 hours was not spent.. more like 1.. and
> samba was working one direction within 15mins.. It was the windows box that
> had the problem.. This is my first reply to these letters so I hope this
> doesnt sound bad but if I cant refer to myself as "network people" then
> please someone shoot me cause thats how I make my living ;)
> -Shawn
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "SOTL" <sotl155360@earthlink.net>
> To: <slug@nks.net>; ""Robin \"Roblimo\" Miller"" <robin@roblimo.com>
> Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 9:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Hardware vendors in town
>
> > Robin:
> >
> > Maybe you could do future articles on this.
> >
> > Like most business types I am trying to form an office network. The
> > advantages for this are obvious; the difficulties less so.
> >
> > For this network there would be a minimum of 20 to 30 computers if the
> > company grew to its practical limits in one office. If the company was
>
> bigger
>
> > we would have to open more offices so this is a realistic upper limit on
>
> the
>
> > number of computers. A more piratical lever would be 10 to 15 if
> > everybody had a computer. This for a number of business reasons is
> > counter
>
> productive
>
> > so even this level is probable excessive. So this is a small network.
> >
> > Next all of this equipment is located in the same confined office.
> > Implication, there is no need to have internal security in the realm of
> > encrypted files on the lan. Restrictions of who may view others files
>
> would
>
> > be highly desirable but not encrypted logins or encrypted files.
> >
> > At todays Dunedial Linux meeting 10+ 2ND and 3RD level people could not
> > network 1 Linux box using Samba and 1 Win 98 box.
> > By 2 and 3 level I mean 0 = zero level knowledge and 5 = Alan Cox & Linus
> > level. There were no network people in this group of linux geeks.
> >
> > This combined group of 10+ linux people failes to make one - 2 computer
> > network work in 4 hours.
> >
> > The point being that if 10+ 2ND and 3RD level linux people can not put
> > together 1 network in about 4 hours then the HOWTOs are to vague and the
> > requirement to complicated for the average half claim baked small
> > computer guru to even consider networking a small office.
> >
> > Thanks for your ear.
> >
> > Frank



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