[oclug] Workgroup Server

[Vic Gedris]

On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Jason Holmes wrote:

> Hi Group,
> I am setting up a lan for a local museum (Diefenbunker, Canada's Cold
> War Museum) and would like to set up a linux
> fileserver/mailserver/Printserver for the Lan of about 7 computers and I
> have no idea where to start! I have a machine for the server, Pentium
> 200MMX - 10Gig HD - 64 Megs of ram. Right now the server has Caldera
> Open linux 2.4 EDesktop on it. The computers on the lan are 486's
> running windows 95 and I need it to be setup so people can login to a
> machine and access their files on the linux server and check their
> email. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

That's incredibly cool that they have decided to use machines that are
left-over from the Cold War to create their LAN and keep the historical
feeling accurate!  ;-)

I'm not at all familiar with the specifics of Caldera, but you'll want
to look at the following:

1) Samba - for Windows-style file and printer sharing that can
           be accessed by your Win95 clients.

2) Sendmail or Qmail - for receiving mail on the server.
3) A POP3 or IMAP server so people can access their mail.  Never had
   the need to do this myself, so I don't know the specifics....

Your network configuration will also depend on whether this thing is
connected to the Internet (I'd assume so!), and whether the linux server
is acting as a firewall/NAT box too.  IF that's the case, you'll have to
look at the IPCHAINS and FIREWALL HOWTO's.

Cheers,
Vic

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