On your Linux machine create a script that will use smbclient to transfer your file which might look something like this:

======================= CAUTION : UNTESTED!!! =====================
...

- Open Terminal.
- type 'netconfig' (no quotes)
- if you are using a DHCP server, then just choose DHCP.
- if not (static), then fill in the ip address for your linux box, subnet mask.
- in the...

If your Windows server is the gateway, then just configure your linux computers to use the ip address of the windows server as their gateway.

Which linux distribution are you using?

If you do not have a router with you, setup one linux computer to become your router. Add one more network card. You can then go for NAT or use a proxy server like squid.

I believe the question was mis-stated. You might be trying to say when to go for "Netware" or "SLES/OES" and when to go Win2003. Note that Novell is a company, not a product.

On Novell's side,...

I'm afraid you'd have to go CLI (terminal) and edit /etc/squid/squid.conf for that. The most basic that you can add will be:

http_port 3128

acl mynetwork src 192.168.0.0/24

http_access allow...

How could you say "Windows IS free" when you need to purchase the boxed edition of XP Home or XP Pro? Plus you cannot have unlimited networking with Windows Server 2003 without purchasing related...

Xen on SLES10 is pretty straightforward and fast in my experience. I was able to deploy Xen using SLES10 on two Sun x64 Server (X2100 M2). Each machine runs two SLES10's (1 Dom0, 1 DomU). YAST comes...