Linux for small business

[Mike]

I think Kevic did a good job summing that up for you, so i want
add much. I am interested in learning how to set up Samba as a PDC;
If anyone can direct me to a good Howto I would appreciate it.


v/r
Mike

On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 01:38:00PM -0700, Terence Chang wrote:
 Hi All:
 
 I only have experience on linux for desktop use 5% of
 my time. My friend would like to know if they can use
 Linux for the small business. This is what they have. 
 
 1. 20 PCs with either Win95 and Win98 installed. 
 2. A 7MB DSL line goes into the office. 
 3. One DSL/Router/Hug to shared the internet to every
 PCs. 
 4. One dual PIII 600 512MB memory server with Win2000
 and a shareware email server. 
 
 This is what they need. 
 1. A firewall to secured the intranet
 2. A mail server that can sent and receive company's
 email
 3. A File server, so they can share the files
 (samba?). 
 4. Every employee will need to logon to the network to
 access internet/intranet. Is it something like domain
 controller, Active Directory and LDAP in NT
 environment? 
 5. Of course Apache Web Server and MySQL and PHP for
 internal web site. (I cna do this)
 6. Virus protection. 
 
 My friend try to cut the cost by not using MS
 solutions (MS SQL, MS Exchange, MS ISA, IIS, etc).
 What Linux Package should he buy to get all those
 capabilities? They are not going to get rid of win 95
 and 98, because some account software are installed. 
 
 Is it difficult to setup that up? What will be the
 average price for all this? I think I will be the
 person to do this. It is a challenge to me though. :-)
 Can you do all this on that Dual PIII server? 
 
 I use Mandrake as my second desktop, but i have never
 setup firewall, router and mail server on Linux. Can
 anyone provide some resource that I can check out? 
 
 Thank you for help!
 
 =====
 Terence Chang
 peanutlen@yahoo.com
 
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