New Infrastructure.

[Peter F]

Hi All,

We are in the process of setting up a complete new Infrastructure Server
2003/XP clients.
The existing infrastructure setup is as follows –

Main Site: Hosts the PDC and a further 25 servers and is connected via the
cloud to a satellite site.
Satellite Site: 9 Servers (Including the BDC) connected to various router
and hubs. Scanner- Plotter are networked and used by a number of PC’s.

I need the Scanner and Plotter to be retained as legacy equipment as they
cannot in their current status be attached to the new system because they
have not been approved by the accreditors and pose a possible security risk.
(The old infrastructure will cease to exist once migration has take place and
will be physically removed). I have two solutions in mind

1. Keep the existing Infrastructure but not connected to the Main Site (an
Autonomous system).
2. Keep two PC’s and attach the Scanner / Plotter directly to the PC’s. The
scanner has a Fire wire connection and the Plotter has a Cat5 connection.

The questions surrounding both solutions are…would users still be able to
access the autonomous system if the links through the cloud to the PDC have
been severed? Would we need new user ID’s to connect to the Autonomous system?
How would the connection to the PC be made with a CAT5 cable? Would we need
to install some software in order for a direct connect to work? Presumably we
would need a fire wire card installed on one PC to make the direct connect to
the Scanner.

Could someone offer any advice on any of the above, I would be grateful for
any other solution that you could think of and what the questions/remedies
surrounding the solutions are.

Your help is greatly appreciated.

 

[Steve Parry [MVP]]

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Hi All,

We are in the process of setting up a complete new Infrastructure
Server 2003/XP clients.
The existing infrastructure setup is as follows -

Main Site: Hosts the PDC and a further 25 servers and is connected
via the cloud to a satellite site.
Satellite Site: 9 Servers (Including the BDC) connected to various
router
and hubs. Scanner- Plotter are networked and used by a number of PC's.

PDC? BDC? These have'nt existing since NT4. Svr 2k to Svr 03 just has DC's

I need the Scanner and Plotter to be retained as legacy equipment as
they cannot in their current status be attached to the new system
because they have not been approved by the accreditors and pose a
possible security risk. (The old infrastructure will cease to exist
once migration has take place and will be physically removed). I have
two solutions in mind

1. Keep the existing Infrastructure but not connected to the Main
Site (an Autonomous system).
2. Keep two PC's and attach the Scanner / Plotter directly to the
PC's. The scanner has a Fire wire connection and the Plotter has a
Cat5 connection.

The questions surrounding both solutions are.would users still be
able to access the autonomous system if the links through the cloud
to the PDC have been severed? Would we need new user ID's to connect
to the Autonomous system? How would the connection to the PC be made
with a CAT5 cable? Would we need to install some software in order
for a direct connect to work? Presumably we would need a fire wire
card installed on one PC to make the direct connect to the Scanner.

Could someone offer any advice on any of the above, I would be
grateful for any other solution that you could think of and what the
questions/remedies surrounding the solutions are.

Your help is greatly appreciated.

Can the scanner not be attached simply as a device on a new client?

If the plotter is using cat5 then this would imply it's a network printer
and as such it can be "attached" to a server.

 

[Peter F]

Hi Steve,

I beg your pardon, the old infrastructure is NT4. Then new infrastructure is
2003, with XP clients.

Give the information would we require new users to logon if we opted for an
autonomous system? I think we could retain the Plotter Scanner as a
standalone attached to the current printer server.

Thanks for the Reply,

Kind Regards.