Subject: RE: Servers/network
From: stephen king (sking@chartercollege.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 02 2002 - 12:33:29 AKST
Greetings in Nome, Jim. Haven't seen any of the real gurus answer your
question (been a lot of traffic in the past day or so, though), so I figured
I'd go ahead and toss in my $.02 worth and let everybody else hammer away at
it.
On the Cobalt Cube, we ran one when I was at CSU as a web/file server,
running Apache and Samba. Worked pretty well for us; I know my boss (the
real Linux expert in the department) was tickled pink over how simple it was
to set up. I know somebody else here in Anchorage, though, who just gave
their Cube away to one of my networking students after some hardware
difficulties turned it into a fairly expensive doorstop. Hardly a
scientific result: 1 pro, 1 con. However, hardware problems will always
exist with anything you purchase, and I'm pretty much inclined to go with my
former boss's evaluation...best thing since sliced bread.
Stephen
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Dory [mailto:jdory@gci.net]
Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 8:54 AM
To: aklug@aklug.org
Subject: Servers/network
Hello aklug,
I'm new to the list and have been monitoring it trying to learn a
thing or two. I'm charged with getting a network up and running for
a business of about 50 employees.. maybe only 30 need the network at
this point, if that many. (I'm up in Nome. Hope you don't mind if I
listen in and ask a few questions now and then.)
Unfortunately a very limited budget, so can't hire a contractor at
this point. So what I'm doing is starting out by wiring the place
up. Got a peer to peer running now with hubs scattered around, but
am to the point of getting to purchase a server, router, and switch
or two put on a real rack in a wiring closet.
(I'm taking the Cisco CNNA course at the local campus in
Nome so have learned some basics.)
I do have an old Dell server running linux as a file share on Samba
but haven't learned too much about it yet. But playing with it.
My question then is somewhere here. There is a guy in town here who
I can hire to help setup a linux server and help maintain it until I
get good enough at it. He suggested server appliances with linux
that can be administered through a web browser interface, which
sounds attractive to someone with limited knowledge like myself. I
did a web search and the first thing that pops up is Sun's Cobalt
stuff w/linux. Would that be a good solution? What I'm hoping for is one
server to do file sharing as well as an email server.
Otherwise I was looking at some Dell rack mount servers bundled with
Redhat, but not sure about web interfaces on those.
-- Best regards, Jim mailto:jdory@gci.net
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