[TriLUG] Small business server setup

[David A. Cafaro]

One thing you might want to make sure you have considered is the
End-of-life date on Red Hat 9.  As of the end of April you will not be
able to get security and errata packages from Red Hat anymore.  You may
have already considered this, but it's something to double check on if
you are using this server for a business and don't want to be upgrading
the entire OS every 6-9 months.  You may have some luck with the group
Fedora Legacy which has been mentioned by others on this list.  I've
actualy joined up with them and plan on helping out.  Check them out
here for now:

http://www.fedora.us/wiki/FedoraLegacy

Cheers,
David



On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 09:29, Justin Johnson wrote:
> I have been assigned the task of replacing the server at the company that I
> work for. This server will be used for file sharing and email for 13
> employees. I suggested using Linux to the owner of the company, who liked
> the idea of saving the cost of Win2x Server and Exchnage (or other email
> server software) versus _FREE_ :-). I will be using RedHat 9.0 and setting
> up Samba and Postfix for file sharing and mail serving. All clients (other
> than my dual boot laptop) will be Windows machines on this network.
> 
>  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
> 
> For mail I will just add users to the machine and then disable their console
> login ability (i can do this, right?)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. 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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David A. Cafaro <dac(at)cafaro.net>
Sys Admin to User: "You did what?!?"