[Wylug-help] setting up server

[Scott Hodgson]

ROBERTS, Mike wrote:
>   
>> What do I need to to setup a file sharing server on my network 
>> (localnetwork).
>> I have an old server and I have installed Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy 
>> Heron, not 
>> the server edition as I am not competent with command line.  
>> I want to 
>> setup /home folders for users on the server and a shared 
>> music folder so 
>> we are not using large amounts of hard drive space.  also later on a 
>> mailserver for pop3 accounts.  I have looked around and can't 
>> figure out 
>> what I need for this purpose.  Also can you recommend good 
>> sites to get 
>> a tutorial on setting it up please. 
>> So far I think I need openssh samba and NFS.
>>     
>
> Hi,
>
> I have just been through a similar process. I decided* to go for the
> server addition of Ubuntu 8.04 with an add-on called "Webmin". This
> gives you a web based front end you can administer the server with from
> any other PC on your network. The server then doesnt need a screen or
> keyboard hooked up to it and you get a decent web based gui front end to
> all the tricky command line stuff on the server.
>
> Webmin also has quite a lot of online help files which I am ploughing
> through at the moment.
>
> Webmin is here http://www.webmin.com/.  I dont have to hand the exact
> instructions I used to install webmin but a quick google for "webmin"
> and "ubuntu 8.04" should point you in the right direction. If I remember
> rightly it only took a few lines of commands at the command line to get
> it installed and set up. Then it was off to a webbrowser on my desktop
> PC to get things configured. 
>
> Webmin should take most of the pain out of all the user creating, samba
> setting up, email server and it also caters, it would seem, for just
> about any server type add on module you could think of. 
>
> I mentioned my trying it out to one of the guys at my local LUG
> (hertslug) and he said it was very good and he would be lost at work
> with out it where he uses it all the time.
>
> These is another centos based linux distribution you could also use for
> this kind of server setup. It is called SME server
> http://www.smeserver.org/ this a ready to go out of the box server with
> built in web based front end. You just install it, follow the on screen
> prompts then point a web browser on another machine on the network at
> the url the installer gives you and away you go.
>
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Regards Mike
>
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> * I tried to use SME server but was installing to a Compaq DL360 which
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> could find) to configure where to install itself other than effectively
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Hi

Thanks for the link, it does look rather good, so I will install server 
edition and try it out.

Scott