Fwd: Re: [Sderby] networking

[David Bottrill]

Re-sent as the last time I sent this it didn't seem to arrive.
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By the way, once I recover from a PSU failure that trashed both hard disks,
the DVD and CDRW drives, I will be in a position to start knocking out a fe=
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CD copies, I even have a few M$ cd's that may be useful.

David


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> Mark,
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> I run a mixed Linux / Windows network at home, which works very well.=20
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> I have a Dual PIII 450 512MB RAM, server running SuSE 8.0 this runs
> Samba and acts as a Primary Domain Controller for my Windows PCs. It is
> used for users home drives, shared drives and as a print server. I'm
> fortunate as I have a broadband connection which is connected to my
> network using a Linksys router.=20
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> My recommendation would be to use a low spec Pentium box with SmoothWall
> www.smoothwall.org as a dial-up router / firewall. If you really want to
> play with Win2K server you could always install VMWare on the server and
> providing you have enough memory and a fast enough processor you could
> run Win2K on top of Linux on the same box.
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> My PC at home runs SuSE 8.1 and I can boot win2K if I really have to I
> also have a laptop running SuSE 8.1 the rest of the family (3) have PCs
> running Win2K. I also have spurious other boxen that get connected from
> time to time, such as a SUN Ultra 30 workstation, last time I played it
> had SuSE installed on it, although I do intend to install Solaris 9,
> which I have sitting around. I do have a second server running Samba and
> Apache, which is used as an Internet facing server to supplement some
> ISP storage, something one of the kids uses this to store MP3s she links
> to from her website, as the server is running Samba, she simply maps a
> drive to this server so she can easily add files to the web server.
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> I use VMWare on my PC occasionally when I quickly need to run windows,
> or another copy of Linux or other OSes.
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> I can connect to my server either via SMB (Samba) or NFS, for most
> normal access I use Samba as it is convenient and flexible for my needs,
> with a few tweaks a non root user can mad drives as required, I have
> added mount commands so my windows style home drive and shared drives
> are mapped automatically when I log into KDE my preferred Linux desktop.
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> I transfered to Linux last December and I have found there is very
> little reason to run Windows I can do all I need to do in Linux. Since
> OpenOffice has been released it has become a great alternative to
> MSOffice.
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> Essentially I have a Linux box that integrates well with the Windows
> network in the house and with the way my family use our server, shared
> drive to put swap stuff between us and a home drive for personal files,
> all managed by a Linux / Samba server.
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> Rather than tape I have opted for a second hard disk as a backup device,
> I have a script running on a CRON job that backs up all our userdata at
> 5am every morning using an application called "rdisk" this is very fast
> and works well.=20
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> I think the best thing to do is mail me off-list when you have digested
> this email and we can discuss options in more detail.
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> On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 20:28, mark wilkes wrote:
> > Hello all,
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> > I am currently in the midst of building / purchasing another 3 PC's + h=
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> > network cards, cat5 cables etc for my home network / hobby / obsession.
> > I would like to use linux Suse8 as the operating system for my server (=
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> > have) or hpux 11(which I require) and dual boot with win 2000 server (w=
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> > require). I would like to use win 2000 professional (which I require) a=
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> > another linux or Unix o/s ( which I require) for my client PC's.
> > Any suggestions on the best way to do this would be be great e.g s/w I =
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> > borrow or purchase & any hardware for sale.
> > I reckon if I buy a couple of Pentium2 machines with 64m ram and then b=
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> > own server with 1+gig processor and 256m ram to intergrate with my Pent=
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> > 128m ram PC (dual booting linux suse8 & win 98se) I should have a decen=
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> > starting point.
> > Any do's or don'ts?
> > I only have a 56k modem at the moment so I can't download any s/w to bi=
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> > will hopefully upgrade to broadband when my network is up and running.
> > My budget isn't very big (=A3400-500max) but I saw some really cheap st=
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> > the Northern computer fair last week (pent2 full system =A365 & monitor=
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> > Are these events ok to acquire bargains or is most of it junk?
> > Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.=20
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> > Thanks Mark Wilkes.
> > ps; Hopefully in the near future my next project will be to add a route=
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> > web caching server with firewall. In I.T expansion is limitless but I t=
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> > my wife will kill me before the network takes over the house.
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