Red hat 9 network

[heirkeyso]

is it possible to use a red hat 9 as a server in the network and the clients are windows base(windows 98se and windows xp)?

[Opnosforatou]

Yes, that's possible.

You want to use it for File/Printing server and/or Mail server.

[heirkeyso]

yes, i will used it for file sharing.

red hat has dhcp feature, right?

our current setup is windows 2000 server is our server in the network. in the server we have a dos base database application (clipper and its database is paradox), in the client we just map network drive the folder
where the application is located in the server in order to use by the client computer. in short, the application is running in the server. can i do this setup in linux? can exe file run in the linux? because exe file is not recognized file of linux.

[bittukk]

Hi,
you can make the Linux 9.0 has a Server and all the other as clients.depending upoon how you are going to configure the linux box.....

Regards
Bittu.k.k

[heirkeyso]

ok thanks.

is exe file can also run in linux as executable file like in windows?

[Opnosforatou]

ok thanks.

is exe file can also run in linux as executable file like in windows?

The way executables work on *nix and variants differs then that from windows.
While .exe,*.com are programs when using Windows,an Unix executable program/script has executiong rights and can have any extenstion you want.

[Opnosforatou]

yes, i will used it for file sharing.

red hat has dhcp feature, right?

our current setup is windows 2000 server is our server in the network. in the server we have a dos base database application (clipper and its database is paradox), in the client we just map network drive the folder
where the application is located in the server in order to use by the client computer. in short, the application is running in the server. can i do this setup in linux? can exe file run in the linux? because exe file is not recognized file of linux.

If you want to implement a Linux server for Windows 2000 replacement.
Use Samba for the file/printer sharing and/or Windows 2000 Domain Controler. (All linux distros support DHCP/DNS services)
I would suggest not to use Red Hat 9 but Fedora Core 1 or Fedora Core 2.
RH9 has reached it's end-of-life stage, so Red Hat will not supply any support for RH9.
Or use Red Hat's Enterprise edition.

in the client we just map network drive the folder
where the application is located in the server in order to use by the client computer.

This can be accomplished by using Samba

in short, the application is running in the server.

Nopes, It's not, it runs on the clients machine, only the data and program files are located on a physical different computer, the server in this case.