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Hi All On 13 Jun 2009, at 10:02, Rob Beard wrote: > Brown Richard wrote: >> Hi All >> >> I need to buy some hard drives. I was looking at WD Caviar GP 500GB. >> Are they an ok drive please? >> >> > Western Digital are pretty good. I believe they offer a 3 year > warranty, but saying that I think pretty much all the hard drive > manufacturers do nowadays. >> The other thing I wanted to ask is the pros and cons of running a >> network with a domain led server? I'm not quite sure if that is the >> correct way to put the question! We have a network of 9 pcs, 2 macs >> and a Linux file server. Sage data is being served by one of the >> Macs. >> We currently have an intranet being served by one of the pcs. We will >> be trying out various solutions to help run a locally hosted crm and >> so will probably load up a pc or a mac with server software to run >> something like Sugar CRM. So I wondered whether it is more efficient >> instead of having "workgroup" as the group to belong to whether it is >> possible to set up a server as a domain controller or something like >> that? >> >> > I'm sure you've asked this before. Anyway, a domain makes life easier > with regards to user administration on the Windows machines. You only > have to create one set of users and then attach each PC to the > domain (I > think you can do the same on a Mac, at least I did something like this > on OS X years back). The Linux file server should be able to act as a > domain controller (what distro are you using on there?). The > advantage > of adding each PC to the domain rather than a workgroup is that anyone > will be able to login to any PC (this can also be restricted on a per > machine basis if required). You wouldn't have to have an account on > each PC for each user, and the users wouldn't have to make sure that > on > each PC they kept their passwords the same as the PCs will ask the > domain server for authentication. > > However you will need Windows 2000, Windows XP Pro (XP Home doesn't > support domains), Windows Vista Business or Windows Vista Ultimate > (I'm > presuming you don't have Vista Enterprise). > > With regards to the CRM software, I would guess that it could be setup > to use LDAP for authentication. You should be able to configure a CRM > server to get the user accounts and passwords from the domain server > via > LDAP especially if it's a Linux server running Samba. > > Thanks for all the replies. I thought I had asked the question before but couldn't find the emails. Some useful points were raised and ones which I will be investigating. -- Kind regards Rich http://www.cregy.co.uk Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Romans 12 v 1 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html