A client has a small business network. She has asked you for advice on the operating systems to?

use for five work stations and one server. She is interested in an operating system that can protect data stored on local systems. It is particularly important for her to be reasonably sure that some employees cannot access certain directories, even if they are logged on to the local system. She has more employees than systems, so they will share machines, and she wants to make sure that employees will not be able to read each other's files.





The following is a list of additional requirements.





• She wants all the operating systems to support native encryption.





• The server she wants to purchase will store user accounts for the users on her small network. This server must be able to use USB ports because she also wants to use it as a scanner.





• She wants to install the latest stable operating system

A client has a small business network. She has asked you for advice on the operating systems to?
Windows 2000 ( for microsoft enviornment ) or you can use Red Hat , fedora or freebsd for Unix enviornment ..





Hope it will help.
Reply:I would definitely recommend a Linux or possibly OpenBSD for the server. The only drawback I know of is it might be more difficult/expensive to find someone who is experienced at administering it.





Redhat has an Enterprise version of Linux which is designed to be very stable, and they have support that can be purchased per year. I don't have any experience with this, so I can't say how good it is.





For the desktops, you should be able to achieve better security with Linux, but there are still some things that are more difficult or impossible to do, so it depends on the applications that are needed.