If you can get your hands on the Feb 2002 issue of Linux Magazine, it had a
really good article on how to set up Samba to act as a PDC for Win NT, 2000
and XP machines.
At 4/25/02 02:46 PM , you wrote:
>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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