Subject: Re[2]: Servers/network
From: Jim Dory (jdory@gci.net)
Date: Tue Apr 02 2002 - 13:08:12 AKST
Hello Stephen,
Thanks for the datapoints. I've actually gotten a few responses.. they
were just off list. I belong to a couple other lists that when you hit
reply, you reply back to the list instead of the individual. (Fiddle-l
and multihullboatbuilder). So not
sure the protocol here - would people rather see the answers from
people on list or not?
Anyway, the responses I got included a couple favorable to the Cube,
especially for ease of use. My concern is just what I give up in
configurability. Could I ever do something like Ximian's Evolution
(should I ever want to.. just don't yet know what all is out there for
jobs like calendaring, etc.) But ease of use and quick setup are very
appealing at this point. Since the price is so low, I might be able to
talk boss into another server to do other stuff on, shortly after
everything else is up and running.
Then there was someone who pointed out that the Cube is now Sun, so
watch out.
A couple people suggested instead to look at Webmin and Smoothwall.
I installed Webmin today on my experiment Suse 7.3 box but haven't figured
out yet how to log in from another windows machine. (possible?) I've
got Samba working between boxes anyway. Haven't yet had time to read
any docs on Webmin. Someone suggested Imp for webmail.
Maybe it was those folks who also suggested building the server from
scratch. I've built a box or two for my personal use but hesitate to
take on all support tasks (responsibility) for a box I build for work. Plus getting
that by the boss could prove difficult. But maybe there's a solution
hiding in there somewhere.
I need to take backups off site too, so I'm thinking Dat tape backup.
The Cube has an external scsi port but I don't know about software.
The Cube Raq's don't have that.. guess you have to send jobs out to
other box or something to backup. Hopefully if I decide on Cube Raq's
the local ISP guru here, who uses them, will know all about that.
So that summarizes some of the response and some of my thoughts.
Cheers, Jim
Tuesday, April 02, 2002, 1:33:29 PM, you wrote:
sk> Greetings in Nome, Jim. Haven't seen any of the real gurus answer your
sk> question (been a lot of traffic in the past day or so, though), so I figured
sk> I'd go ahead and toss in my $.02 worth and let everybody else hammer away at
sk> it.
sk> On the Cobalt Cube, we ran one when I was at CSU as a web/file server,
sk> running Apache and Samba. Worked pretty well for us; I know my boss (the
sk> real Linux expert in the department) was tickled pink over how simple it was
sk> to set up. I know somebody else here in Anchorage, though, who just gave
sk> their Cube away to one of my networking students after some hardware
sk> difficulties turned it into a fairly expensive doorstop. Hardly a
sk> scientific result: 1 pro, 1 con. However, hardware problems will always
sk> exist with anything you purchase, and I'm pretty much inclined to go with my
sk> former boss's evaluation...best thing since sliced bread.
sk> Stephen
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