Using linux as a server

[Mike Bydalek]

There are a ton of guides for setting up Samba, just Google around.  
Personally, I got tired of setting up Samba from scratch all the time, 
so I've been using a Samba installer at http://majen.net/smbldap/  It 
works with Debian/Ubuntu, CentOS, etc.

-Mike

Nadim Hoque wrote:
> Today I went to Boarders to purchase a opensuse 10.3 book (it is 
> Opensuse Unleashed by Michael McCallister) and I was wondering if it 
> will work with opensuse 11 (The thing is we do need a book/manual just 
> in case assistance is needed in my absence). Also if I wanted to use 
> CentOS as the server is there a good step-by-step guide to set up a 
> samba server and perhaps application server.
>
>
> Michael Sammartano wrote:
>>
>> Nadim,
>>
>> If you are comfortable with openSUSE 11, then by all means use it! 
>> While it is true the majority of the people on this list do use 
>> debian or RedHat based products, SUSE is supported by several of us 
>> members. Many of the people on this list and others have steered away 
>> from SUSE due to the Microsoft agreement they entered into. This is 
>> fine (No flame wars please!), but SUSE has been working with 
>> Microsoft for a year now, and have made SUSE very simple to work 
>> along with their products. You will find the opensuse.org website and 
>> the suse.com website provide more than enough information to assist 
>> you in getting everything configured to work together simply and 
>> quickly. Don't get me wrong, I am "not" a Microsoft fan. I do not 
>> condone the agreement Novell entered into, I do believe in 
>> interoperability as both operating systems and add on software target 
>> a specific user.The more support that Linux gets in working alongside 
>> the windows platform, the easier it is for the programmers have it to 
>> port additional software to work with Linux.
>>
>> You will find that openSUSE will allow for file sharing with Windows 
>> users with Samba. Follow the wizard in the YaST control panel. 
>> Printer sharing is also easy in YaST. There are several Novell 
>> bundled apps that will also assist in this configuration. I am 
>> running openSUSE 11 on a gPC that I purchased from Wal-Mart last 
>> year, and I use the gPC "server" for everything, including backup's. 
>> The setup is very simple..
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Michael Sammartano
>>
>>
>> ---- Nadim Hoque <nadimhoque at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I recently built a server (a q9300 core 2 quad, 8gb of ram, 1 terabyte
>> > of hard drive space) and I was hoping for now to have it as a simple
>> > file server and perhaps other types one day. There are about 25
>> > computers on the network (24 windows 1 mac). Right now I am
>> > comfortable with opensuse 11, but I am willing to change to another
>> > distro (I liked fedora but I don't like selinux part of it) that is
>> > more suitable to a server. Also there is a program that is called
>> > Geosystems and according to the company the program can be run from a
>> > server on different computers. I don't know exactly know how this is
>> > supposed to work, but most likely I need this computer to have WINE
>> > installed to make it work (the company did say some of their clients
>> > use linux). The most important thing though is that it must be easy to
>> > use (very few CLI operations) because we do not have an IT department.
>> > If I do than is there a good step-by step guide on how to set up a
>> > server for files as well as an application and maintenance of the
>> > server. Also, I might need to know how to use a database program (like
>> > filemaker or access) and again it might have to run under WINE or
>> > something. I am for FOSS, but I do need to figure this out or I might
>> > unfortunately have to use Windows Server.
>> >
>> > Nadim Hoque
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