[TriLUG] Small business server setup

[Chris Bullock]

Justin Johnson wrote:

> I think I pretty much have a game plan that I can wade through, although I
>do have a couple of questions, one of which is tired and beat to death, so
>I apologize in advance... I have Googled and dug through mail archives but
>can not find anything clear.
>
>Do  I need to make any special considerations for partitioning this machine
>when setting it up? I ask becasue the shares that will be set up will be as
>follows:
>
>\work - Everyone will have full read / write access. Will build directory
>structure down from here.
>\finance - Only 3 of us will have access full read / write to this share,
>all others NO access
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you also need a large /var partition for mail and if you are using IMAP 
in the future large /home dir if you expect a lot of saved emails

>For mail I will just add users to the machine and then disable their console
>login ability (i can do this, right?)
>
adduser johnd -s /bin/false 'this adds the mail user and does not give 
them shell access'

>Will use POP/SMTP protocols, possibly
>latter moving to IMAP. At first the mail will only serve the local network
>machines, but my next step after getting that up will be to contact our
>website hosting provider about setting up an MX record to point to our DSL
>IP and then providing internet email for everyone in the company. 
>
I would first check to see if the website provider offers email hosting, 
depending on your website plan, most providers offer a number of email 
accts, we use website source and they give 100 free email addresses with 
our acct, along with mailing lists.  I am not against inhouse mail 
servers, but if you already are already paying for the resources, use 
them.  Another thing is that if you intend on having Internet access I 
would strongly urge you do not put samba on the same machine as email.  
This machine will need to be on your DMZ and firewalled.

>Does this
>bring any special considerations into play for initial setup of Postfix?
>
>That's my game plan for now. Should I be considering anything else? Am I
>missing anything?
>
>I guess I should also mention that I do not intend to allow anyone other
>than myself to have console login privledges to this machine. Others will
>only need to access the shares from their Windows clients and get/send mail
>via POP/SMTP.
>
>Thanks,
>Justin
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