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How do you connect to one independent of a cluster for file sharing?
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How do you connect to one independent of a cluster for file sharing?

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May i know that for the clients who wish to access the cluster nodes, what are their OS requirements? Must they be windows2k / xp?
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May i know that for the clients who wish to access the cluster nodes, what are their OS requirements? Must they be windows2k / xp?

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This would be a little long to explain without knowing how clustering works so I have provided a couple of links that will explain everything for you.<br />
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<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/planning/server/clustersteps.asp" rel="ugc">http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/planning/server/clustersteps.asp</a><br />
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<a href="http://support.microsoft.com/search/preview.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q259267" rel="ugc nofollow">http://support.microsoft.com/search/preview.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q259267</a>
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This would be a little long to explain without knowing how clustering works so I have provided a couple of links that will explain everything for you.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/planning/server/clustersteps.asp [http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/planning/server/clustersteps.asp]

http://support.microsoft.com/search/preview.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q259267 [http://support.microsoft.com/search/preview.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q259267]

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Dear all,<br />
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&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;In a traditional cluster environment, one node will be active and the other will be passive. How about if the cluster service is implemented in windows 2000 advance server? can we run different applications on both nodes? Say for example, we want to have a document management system on one node and use the other node as a file server? Please advise.<br />
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Regards
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Dear all,

     In a traditional cluster environment, one node will be active and the other will be passive. How about if the cluster service is implemented in windows 2000 advance server? can we run different applications on both nodes? Say for example, we want to have a document management system on one node and use the other node as a file server? Please advise.

Regards

windows 2000 clustering

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