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I recently have been brought on as the IT consultant for a small business. They have a &quot;new&quot; Windows Server2003 and they also have an older Unix (SCO) server which hosts an acounting application. All of the shared files are being mapped to the Unix server using SAMBA. There are only 4 - 5 users of the Unix server and it is a bit slow. <br />
Is it in my best interest to map the shared files to the Windows Server2003 machine?<br />
I believe the reason he had not done this is because there is no backup on the new server. (I know...hard to believe...trust me that is only the tip of the iceburg....)
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I recently have been brought on as the IT consultant for a small business. They have a "new" Windows Server2003 and they also have an older Unix (SCO) server which hosts an acounting application. All of the shared files are being mapped to the Unix server using SAMBA. There are only 4 - 5 users of the Unix server and it is a bit slow. 
Is it in my best interest to map the shared files to the Windows Server2003 machine?
I believe the reason he had not done this is because there is no backup on the new server. (I know...hard to believe...trust me that is only the tip of the iceburg....)

Unix with shared files

Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 at Bell Labs. Today, it is a modern OS with many commercial flavors and licensees, including FreeBSD, Hewlett-Packard’s UX, IBM AIX and Apple Mac OS-X. Apart from its command-line interface, most UNIX variations support the standardized X Window System for GUIs, with the exception of the Mac OS, which uses a proprietary system.

Unix OS

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).

Windows Server 2003

The Microsoft Server topic includes all of the legacy versions of the operating system, including the Windows NT 3.1, NT 3.5, NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 and Windows Home Server versions.