NetWare Neworks
Microsoft Windows Networks
Netware Networks :- Yes, Linux can connect to NetWare networks. This includes NDS as well as bindery services. Starting with the Linux NetWare client (originally developed with the Caldera Network Desktop system), Caldera systems has continued its NetWare line with the addition of NetWare Cross platform Services (NCPS) for Linux. With this package, Linux jumped into the novell server business with the capability to offer Novell file and print services.
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The right to port such items to Linux was obtained primarily because of Caldera Systems' early close relationship with Novell (www.novell.com). Novell now also works closely with other Linux distributors to ensure that NetWare is well supported for Linux users.
Complete information on the NetWare networks for Linux client is available later in this blog.
NetWare Neworks
Microsoft Windows Networks
Microsoft Windows Networks:- With the popularity of Microsoft Windows Networks systems comes the popularity of Windows Networking through the Session Message Block (SMB) protocol. This networking scheme allows connections to be browsed, established, and then dropped using simple graphic interfaces on the Windows system. The Networks themselves are dynamically built and updated through a series of "elections" between computers on the networks, with a new election being held every time another computer signs on.
In most Windows networks, a machine running Windows NT sits at the center of the network, acting as a source for passwords and home directories for client machines on the network. These central machines are known as Domain Controllers. Domain Controllers are quite powerful, and their pivotal role as the centerpiece of the network makes them appealing to administrators. It is much easier to maintain one computer (the Domain Controller) than to maintain password files and such on each individual client machine on the network.
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This type of networking is thankfully not limited to machines running Windows. A number of years ago, a protocol suite called samba was developed by a gentleman named Andrew Tridgell that offered simple file sharing based on the SMB protocol. The project has taken on a life of its own, adding support for the Common Internet File System (CIFS), and recently taking on features that enable it to emulate Domain Controllers to a certain extent. Samba has been given support by major hardware vendors (for instance, DEC, silicon Graphics, IBM), has outperforming other SMB implementations using Ziff-Davis's NetBench benchmark, and is now capable of being a domain client (obtaining authentication from a Domain Controller running on Windows NT). There are many more features of Samba that make it a worthy (if not superior) addition to any Windows network, but those are best left to the Samba Web pages (www.samba.com) and ,"Sharing Resources with Samba."
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