Using linux as a server

[blake gonterman]

Howtoforge.com has a lot of howto guides for Centos, Fedora, Debian,
OpenSUSE, etc...

--Gnunixguy

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 8:34 AM, Mike Bydalek <
mbydalek at compunetconsulting.com> wrote:

>  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> <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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