Re: [WinMac] Conversion to a Windows Env
Dan Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Mon, 28 Sep 1998 10:08:02 -0400
Dear Sam,
I'll answer inline for clarity...
At 08:07 AM 9/28/98 -0600, you wrote:
>Texas A&M University
>Department of Food Services
>Agronomy Rd, College Station, TX 77843-1374
>409-845-9215, Fax 845-2157
>http://food.tamu.edu
> Conversion to a Windows... 9/28/98 7:59 AM
>
>I administer an environment of about 100 Macs which are connected via TCP/IP
>and AppleTalk and store necessary files on an AppleShare server. I am
planning
>a migration of most of the nodes to the Windows platform and wanted to find
>out if anyone has recommendations on a couple of items:
>1. We are currently utilizing QuickMail server software for e-mail which
>connects to a software gateway to receive internet e-mail. Does anyone have a
>recommendation on an e-mail client/server solution which incorporates both
>platforms?
Any standard SMTP/POP3 server will work nicely. I would tend to avoid MS
Exchange 5.5 *ON AN INTEL PLATFORM* because it is buggy.
>2. I would like to replace the AppleShare server with an NT box. Does anyone
>have recommendations on how smoothly this process may go and how difficult it
>will be to connect the MacOS nodes to this NT server?
Smooth as silk. Just load Services for Macintosh during the Installation,
apply NT4/Service Pack 3, and the latest SFM hotfix and all will go
smoothly.
>Any other advice/info you may have in regards to this type of migration would
>be greatly appreciated.
1) When you create NTFS partitions, set the cluster size to 2 kilobytes -
This is a good compromise. Do not go below 512 byte cluster size (MFT
fragmentation) or above 4096 bytes (the defragmenting API doesn't work);
2) Check out <http://www.dcginc.com/linuxsx.htm> for very good deals on
533 mHz Alpha servers... You'll find that NT runs MUCH smoother on the
Alpha platform than it does on the intel platform. And much faster.
And, for the speed, costs less, too! [DCG will install for free the correct
ARC firmware so you can run NT/Seever on anything they sell].
3) The Alpha version of NT (both Workstation & Server) contains the
full set of binaries for both i386 and Alpha;
4) Check out <http://www.alphant.com> for more info.
>
> Sam Spink
> s-spink@tamu.edu
> Computer Systems Manager
Yours truly,
Daniel L. Schwartz,
Electrical Engineer.
Dan's Macintosh Consulting
Suite 1306
1840 Frontage Road
Cherry Hill, NJ 08034-2205
609-795-8965
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