MS LAN Admin wants to use a Mac G5??

[Jay Bollyn]

ENVIRONMENT:

200 Clients, mostly winXP, a few win2k
Two win2k3 servers (IIS, SQL Server 2000, SMS)
Novell Netware 6.5 (file and printer sharing)

I am currently using a Dell P4 to administer my network. I have always admired UNIX, so I am thinking about a new Mac G5 as my main desktop box. (I can keep a second lesser winXP box in my office for functions that simply are not going to run on a G5.)

WHY AM I DOING THIS?

I want to learn more about UNIX, mainly because it is clearly a better OS than windows.

I am not the Novell administrator. I just need to administer on the Novell *client* side.

Please let me know if this post makes absolutely no sense.

Of course, points assigned.

:-) Jay

[Roger Faucher]

Jay:

I would use Virtual PC to run Windows and Unix both on the existing system at the same time. See:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/default.mspx

Make a great day!

Roger

[Jay Bollyn]

Hi Roger,

Are you personally running such a system?

:-) Jay

[Roger Faucher]

Hi Jay:

Not yet, but I have the software and plan to install it before January. The link I posted has an eval download so you can test it out for no $$.

Make a great day!

Roger

[Omar Senussi]

Hi Jay,
I have used virtual PC on a MAC in a Windows networked environment.. never got round to unix, but ran very smoothly in that limited environment(Win98/W2K/WinNT)..
This was sveral years ago, so the product can (hopefully!) only have got better..
Shouldn't be any problem with Novell as you can access it via Unix or Windows (if you choose.. you could eliminate the lesser XP machine?!)

~Good luck.. have fun!. Omar

[Jay Bollyn]

thanks to all!