[plug] Network Opinions

[Mark B]

I wonder if microsoft have discount for charaties, i know they do for
education, i suppose if they don't mind some down time it should all be ok,
interesting project looking interested how it will go.

----- Original Message -----
From: "simon" <simon at plumtek.com>
To: <plug at plug.org.au>
Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 12:49 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] Network Opinions


Mark B (mark at tophits.com.au) wrote:
>
>     I may get alot of flame for this one, but out of experience I would
> recommend placing either a Windows 2000 or Windows 2003 server in place to

Your reasoning is sound, except that he appears to be doing this for
free/charity. Discounting his time to be valued at zero, a linux solution
will
be cheaper overall since the only cost to the client in this case is
licensing.

Similar to yourself, I setup samba etc at home to service a handful of
clients
(which has now depleted to 1 Win XP box, the rest are linux). I also setup
openldap etc for authentication. While it took me ages, and I hit several
problems requiring considerable work/reading, if I had to do it again it
would
be much quicker.... the time after that, quicker again. At some point, Id be
confident enough to set it up for a client for a reasonable fee for labour,
which at that point would probably be on par with the labour costs for the
equivalent windows solution.

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