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Three departments in your company --Accounting, Advertising, and Engineering--have been running in their own workgroup environments for a number of years. Engineering runs a Linux Fedora Core 4 network with 10 Linux computers. The Advertising department uses LocalTalk, which is built into its Macintosh computers. Accounting uses Windows XP to share its files and printers. Your task is to connect these three workgroups and purchase a server, if necessary. Develop a solution that allows these three departments to share resources easily.

Write a paper on how you will design the network for communication between the different departments. This solution should enable the departments to share resources.  

*This paper should also include a questionnaire (Interview Form)that will ask the user about computer and network requirements.

Solution

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1)The simple answer is to use another Linux or UNIX based server to setup NFS shares on the server. Windows requires that you mount the NFS shares using the nfsshare command to map the driver of the server disk resources. Since NFS is a NAS protocol which Linux and Macintosh supports natively, it would be a viable option. The challenge lies that the mounts are not directly readable by all of the operating systems, although files can be shared. This would be a challenge if you were performing backups, as each device has preferences in filesystems, but in the scenario you mentioned would not be an issue. CIFS is another NAS protocol, but is more complex to setup on Redhat\'s Fedora Core Operating System and Macs.
2) you would be to forego purchasing a server, and utilize a cost efficient, scalable NAS device such as NetApp\'s FAS2020 .
3)Another option would be to setup SAMBA shares on a linux server, or conversely, utilize SharePoint which presents the data via an HTML webportal to distribute resources.