Linux for small business

[AZ_Pete]

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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