Guest brickwall Posted September 7, 2004 Report Share Posted September 7, 2004 Hello again. I have just installed a Linux MDR 10 Server onto our NT4 network at school. I am sat here thinking .........that was easy........ but what could I use it to do on our network. I am very keen to demonstrate to my managers how installing Linux would be a benefit over M.S. Any suggestions Thanks John PS ................I have never ever used Linux before except playing with MDR..so be gentle please Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted September 7, 2004 Report Share Posted September 7, 2004 Make a list of your school needs. Make a list of things NT4 doesn't do well. Compare these 2 lists, find an item that is on both lists and try Mandrake for that. Have fun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkelve Posted September 7, 2004 Report Share Posted September 7, 2004 (edited) File transfer is a top candidate I think... maybe DNS server... mail server ... ? Edited September 7, 2004 by Darkelve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michel Posted September 7, 2004 Report Share Posted September 7, 2004 (edited) I have never set up a network, but I have some ideas :). You could set up as a file-server, a proxy-server (also for downloads? .. I suppose so and add content-filtering also ... I mean for pop-blocking, advertisement-blocking .. ofcourse you can have false negatives, but you could show a page evrytime you block something how to contact someone to unblock it ...) (squid, privoxy, dansguardian, ... I'm not sure if privoxy and dansguardian scale on large networks .. like I said I have never set them up), a mail-server with spam and virus-filtering, print-server: you can setup a virtual printer in cups (the print-server in most/all-linux-distributions) that makes pdf's of the pages you send to it. One drawback is that you can't choose the filename and location I think. It's generated by a script, ... Ofcourse you can also do these things in windows ... (maybe that some applications I mentionned aren't really supported for windows) they are both operating systems, like said you have to compare to use which one for what ... Linux has good networking-support I thought ... If you have apple's in your school, you could setup apple-talk-print and fileservers on linux I think (I just saw a link about it today) so apple-users have it easy also ... With mandrake you also have a lot of packages you can easily install (at least if you have added the different rpm-install-locations .. for example those from the easyurpmi-site.). You update all the software through rpm ... I believe there is a program that can notify you know when you have updates, but you could also setup a cron-job. Enhanced security? You could set it up as a backup-server ... I just discovered them today, but there are program that will let you install iso-images (all pc's have to be the same ...) on all pc's at onc ethrough the network .. You have the network-install-option from mandrake-linux, but with this I suppose you can also distribute windows-iso-images. If you are interested in this, I can have a look again ... I'm not sure how difficult ort easy to set this all up, but I suppose it takes some time ... Edited September 7, 2004 by Michel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest brickwall Posted September 7, 2004 Report Share Posted September 7, 2004 Thanks for the ideas.... I think for a start ....installing a printer server should be a laugh... Being a small school I have only 3 servers running NT4. The backup server also runs the printers but it takes a while to print the jobs out.. A logon script attaches the printers to the users. :unsure: I guess the sequence of events should be something like..... Add the linux server to the NT4 domain using Samba? Add the printers to the Linux server Change the logon script to connect the users to the linux printers but it only a guess :unsure: If anybody can help ...I'll buy them a cup of tea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michel Posted September 7, 2004 Report Share Posted September 7, 2004 Maybe you can find help in the following thread: http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?sho...=10739&hl=samba It could also be nice to install webmin ... and maybe the Mandrake control center can help you with this? I suppose you' ve heart of webmin (or using it?) or not? I would say .. give it a try ... Anyway, I suppose it's good to know it without extra tools. I also found this thread about the print-as-pdf-server setup: http://mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtop...1&st=&p=entry Hopes these help you some ... Michel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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