Whether a particular Server OS will serve clients of another OS
2006-11-01 18:32:36 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
It depends on what kkind of service you want. In general if you have the necessary software installed on the linux server or any other server whatsoever you can serve any other OS. This intermediate s/w takes care of the necessary translations.
For eg you can use "Samba" for file sharing b/w linux server and windows client.
Most of the http servers around the world use Apache ususally run on linux/unix systems.
Many serveres around the world run on unix/linux. THey provide many services like DNS,DHCP etc to clients running any OS.
2006-11-01 20:33:23 · answer #1 · answered by Y Raghavendra Reddy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes linux can serve clients of another OS. In our network, before we changed over we had a linux box that did DCHP, DHS & e-mail. It also had the ability to act as a print server and file server.
However I would still recommend that you have at least I Windows Server (2k or 2k3) to take advantage of Active Directory (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/directory/activedirectory/default.mspx)
Links to reads:
http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/May2002/article247.shtml
http://www.reallylinux.com/docs/sambaserver.html
Hope this helps.
2006-11-01 19:45:49 · answer #2 · answered by shotokan1978 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not a comp geek, but yeah, I think. The whole push behind its growth is from companies both large and small switching to Linux for servers especially
2006-11-01 18:38:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most Linux systems have SAMBA which is specifically designed to let them serve Windows files.
2006-11-01 19:05:21 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah linux servers can, a HUGE chunk all servers are linux based. including the mass server farms of the mighty google empire.
2006-11-01 18:38:17 · answer #5 · answered by trapperjohn117 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋