Re: SBS 2003 for mail & Linux for fileserving?

From: Bill (Bill_at_microsoft.com)
Date: 11/24/04 

Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 08:48:12 -0000

You might want to look at what Novell has to offer......
Novell who??? www.novell.com
(Execelent Product / crap marketing perhaps a hard sell to Powers that be...
but the product is too good to ignore.. really worth a look. NW6.5 is not
the
old 3.12 product that everyone knows about!!!)

I recently looked for solution hosting 12 companies (small) on 1 Server

I posted here and got negative replies.
I also posted to Novell's SBS forum and got nothing but possitive replies.
I was given a eval copy by one of our GroupIT guys and I managed to install
the server
and 2 clients in about 3 hours.

Novell's SBS has almost ALL the features and MORE....
Dead simple to install and Administer
whats more you get 5 Server licenses **included** AND
you can run everything on 1 box if you want or split the File & Print,
Groupwise (Exchange on Steroids), Firewall etc onto
seperate boxes - something you CAN'T do with MS SBS.
Their SBS product costs about the same as MS-SBS - you can also get a
competative upgrade!!!

(Novell's moving towards Linux - practically ALL their services run on
WIDOWS, LINUX and Novell own Netware!!!)

Lookup posts on this group with "12 companies 1 Server" as the subject.

Here are some links including a FULL how to install....

http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/smallbiz/features/a_nsbs65_implementation_sb.html

http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/

PS: I've now bought my own copy and setup a live server - the experience has
been very, very good.
NO post installation issues on 2 Eval installations and now Live Server
(one NEGATIVE thing - I don't rate the Built-in backup - its crap. Use
BackupExec for Netware)

My IT experience - I was USER until about 4 months ago (people setup PC's
for me including Excel etc)
Then moved to a new site and became involved in a Server setup by a
company - big cockup by them
I got involved and took a PC and SBS disks home to study !!
My 1st WINDOWS install for like I said 4 months ago (approx) and that was
SBS2003!!!

"Rob Billington" <RobBillington@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:58A758DC-6900-4319-B6D6-C91550F06356@microsoft.com...
> The company I do work for has asked if I would quote on a new Linux
> mailserver. I think it would be a mistake because they would lose the
> functionality of exchange. At the moment they run sbs 2000 with 40
clients.
> They are finding the system a little slow (running a server with p4 2gig
cpu
> & 1gig mem) They want to split the fileserving seperatley from the mail.
> somebody said run Linux as a fileserver & exchange 2003 as a mail server
but
> I'm not sure if this is the way forward or wether it would work ok? If
they
> would like to run to two servers to speed things up what would you
recommend?