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by patrickmcintee

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A user has her own business, running a server with linux os. She wants to know if she can run windows nt professional workstations on her linux server. I told her no, I dont think that it is possible, but I just want to check. Thank You.

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by mckaytech

If you're asking if she can use a Linux server to supply printer and file sharing for W2K Professional workstations, the answer is "absolutely!". She just needs to have Samba services installed and configured on the Linux box.(It should be at leastv2.0.7 to take care of some W2K issues).

As a matter of fact, this note is being written on a W2K workstation that receives all network services from a RedHat Linux server.

She could also run Windows applications on a Linux desktop (or vice-versa) by running VMWare as middleware between the OS and the application.

paul

by csd

she can install 'VMWare for Linux' from www.vmware.com at the LINUX server. Once she installed VMWare, she can install her W2K NT on the LINUX server under VMWare.

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