<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Greg,<DIV><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#006312">first of all thanks for the fast reply!!</FONT></DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">1. Get a new PC, install - letīs say - Fedora Core, install Apache,<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Perl, PHP and Koha. Connect this system to the Windows NT server and<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>be able to provide access to Koha to all 50 workstations of the<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>office. There is no need to provide public access (yet), so I think<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>the system has not be the latest server hardware, but a normal<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>workstation would do.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">But: is it possible to connect the Linux PC to the Windows NT server<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>and enable it to be accesible for ALL Windows workstations of the<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>office?!?</DIV> <BR></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">You do not have to 'connect' the Linux server to the NT server. You would assign the Linux Koha server an IP address and make an entry into the internal DNS so that when people browse to <A href="http://library.your.company.name">http://library.your.company.name</A>/ they get to the OPAC interface.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Okay, but I still will have to integrate the system into the NT network, or am I misuinderstanding something?</DIV><DIV>I think this should work via Samba, or are there any other possibilities? I expect that I wonīt be able to connect the Linux server by other means, or are there?</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I appreciate very much every thought on this topic; if anyone has a<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>good weblink for a NT/Linux-network introduction I would be grateful<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>as well.</DIV> <BR></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The Linux Documentation Project has several HOWTOs on networking for Linux, here is one:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Networking-Overview-HOWTO.html">http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Networking-Overview-HOWTO.html</A></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Thanks for this great link.</DIV><DIV>Looks very user-friendly, so I will do my homework!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Cheers</DIV><DIV>Fabian</DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>