Windows 2000 Server/Win2K Adv. Server Configurations

[TSWA]

Hello, sorry for my english. I need to know what is the difference between Windows 2000 Server and Windows 2000 Advance Server. We are moving from Novell 4.xx to Windows 2000 Server(Not Advance). I Installed Windows 2000 Adv. Server trial version(CD from MS Win2k Course) and I don't understand the way to do a Login Script easy, I know about the NET USE Command to do that(Map Drive, Shared Folder for all Users,...). In Novell is easy to do, Novell run a System Login Script and every user have a personal Login Script. How can I simulate these on Win2k Server?.

After installation of W2K ADV, I tried to create a D. CONTROLLER(using the Wizard) and it send me an error creating the DNS, I don't understand why.

I hope that Win2K Server will be easy to install and configured.

Best Regards from Panama,

Marlon

 

[tippmann]

You have a few questions here, lets see if I can answer them. The main differences between win2k server and advanced is that advanced is more scalable. With advanced you can use multiple processors, use clustering and server farms.... Big corporate server stuff. If you are a smaller company with a server or two stick with Win 2k server.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/advancedserver/evaluation/business/overview/advanced.asp

Login scripts are one of the good things about novel. With win2k server you should look at using "roaming user profiles" (go to help and type in "roaming" under the index tab) and "DFS" Distributed File System"

Hope this helps

Good Luck

 

[l1a1uk]

Regarding login scripts. Novell has always been streets ahead of Microsoft in this area. It is very difficult to write interactive login scripts in 2000.

For example in Novell you could write fairly complicated login scripts and use If then else statements to your hearts content. No real programming knowledge required. Not so with Uncle Bills product. You do however have other options. You can use Group Policy to execute scripts that you have written in Visual Basic or Pearl etc. Scripting this way can overcome the limitations of login scripts in 2000.

There was also a product in NT4 called Kickstart that allowed users to write interactive login scripts. Whether there is a version available for 2000 I dont know.

 

[Assimilator]

Actually you can use If statements in the scripts. However you are right in the fact that they aren't as advanced NW is.