RE: Naive question
From: Wayne Taylor (WayneTaylor_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/02/04
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Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 08:41:03 -0800
"SPP Admin" wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Please excuse me if this is the wrong newsgroup - I'm looking for advice
> about migrating our existing network to a more modern system. I have a
> number of quick questions, which I hope you can help me with.
>
> We currently use Novell netware 4.11 to network about 50 PCs (Running Win XP
> Pro and Win98 ) and about 20 Macs, running OS9 and OSX.
>
> We would like to move to a Windows based server environment.
>
> (a) Will Win 200/3 server be able to let Macs connect and 'see' the
> network?
Yes
> (b) Is Win Server 2000/3 appropriate for this size network?
Yes, use SBS2003 Prem
> (c) Novell is a client based system. Does Win server work like this, or
> will I need to upgrade some of our older PCs to cope with the new network?
I would suggest upgrading all of your 98 boxes to XP... 98 will work but you
will have a better time of it if all is XP
> (d) Any other thoughts you might have
If you have hubs, upgraded them to switchs. Make sure your server is
protected by a UPS, you should consider having RAID5, if not at least RAID1
(Mirroring)
>
> Apologies for this naive question. If this is the wrong place, can you
> direct me to the best place to ask these questions.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Martin
>
>
>
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