Windows XP exams - NT or XP?

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NT or XP?

kill97

2003-09-28, 7:52 am

Hello guys,

i have couple of questions regarding networking with Windows.

1) In large organisation, is it a norm to install Windows NT over Windows 9x/2000/xp?
Why?

2) What is Win NT sever used for? Do i nd Win NT sever in order to network Windows NT?

Thanks for helping.

Tarzanboy

2003-09-30, 9:31 pm

1. NT4 is more common in corporate workplaces due to the cost of licenses (already purchased) and low costs as far as hardware (already existing) at least until the hardware breaks.
98 is being phased out due to it's insecurity.
2k was viewed with suspicion by the corporate world, some migrated to it from 3x/9x/NT.
XP is still being viewed with suspicion, however a number of businesses are migrating from 9x/NT/2k to it.

2. NT/2k/2k3 servers are used for domain controllers, web servers, file and print servers, where more than 10 concurrent connections are required.

Cheers,
TB

kill97

2003-10-04, 12:35 pm

so can i use Red Hat as a domain controller
for windows?

jus curious

cheers

richardwhit

2003-10-04, 1:30 pm

A Win2k Domain Controller maintains a copy of Active Directory, Active Directory can't sit on anything other than one of the flavours of Windows 2000 Server.

If you really wanted to you could use Linux for a fileserver for Windows using the Windows NFS client or SAMBA on the Red Hat box. But I am not sure how you could manage security with this like you do with AD or indeed NDS with NetWare.

NT Workstation/Server is still in use in a lot of large environments where there is a large embedded base of NT kit.

I am lucky in that all my servers are Win2K Servers and my desktops are all XP Pro, due to the fact that my company only really started a big investment in IT over the last year or so and I chose what to buy

. If anyone tried to put an NT box on my network I would hurt them....a lot

If you have a clean network and a choice between NT4.0 or Win2K and you chose NT, you'd need shooting IMO

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