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> -----Original Message-----
> From: linda hanigan [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 3:53 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Suggestions for school
>
> Hi all,
> Our parish school has 24 computers in their computer room and maybe 20
> computers in the teachers
> classrooms most of which are networked together. Right
> now they don't have any servers, and I my understanding
> is they are not connected to the internet. From what my
> 5th grader tells me they have bought corel's wordperfect
> family pac and have a bunch of games. They of course
> have almost no money. I got into a discussion
> with the computer teacher about the linux intranet I had
> set up at work for our small business and he was very
> interested in the possiblities of using Linux for servers
> and maybe some other functions. He is really tired of
> Windows crashing. What would be reasonable
> requirements for the following machines:
> A machine that would act as a firewall that they could
> use to access the internet?
> A mailserver,
> A Printserver,
> A fileserver - using samba to connect to windows
> machines?
[Burke, Thomas G.] I do all of the above on a single PIII-450,
128MB RAM, 10(?)G HD
> What would they need if they wanted to create their own
> intranet where the older kids could create web pages
> and other classes could view them?
[Burke, Thomas G.] Netscape is free for both linux & windows -
Netscape also has a built-in html editor (not the best, I'll admit). By
using samba to map the network drive to the user, each kid could have
his/her own directory with his htmlk files there, & they would be accessible
from the main web page with just a link pointing them to the right place.
Remember, html files must be chmod +rx to be accessed.
> Is there a free program that would allow them to logon
> to a linux machine from the window machines so the
> older kids that were interested could learn some basic
> programing? and what hardware would you need to have
> a whole class logged on working with the compiler so it
> would not be too slow?
[Burke, Thomas G.] I find TeraTerm to be the most wonderful program
in the world for this (and other) kinds of stuff... Set up ssh on the
server & get the ssh extensions, & you have a secure network at the same
time. My experience is that you will rarely have more than 1 or 2 people
running compiles at the same time, so nless they are _REALLY_ big jobs, you
will never know thie diff with a 450MHz machine... (I run kernel compiles
in about 5 minutes or less with mine).
> I know what it takes for 4 or 5 computers but I have no
> idea what you need for something this big. I also don't
> have any experience with firewalls and the internet,
> although I have been trying to make time to play
> with this at home. Sorry this is such a long post
[Burke, Thomas G.] My firewall script is available at
http://tomii.erols.com/firewall.txt
Plagiarise it to your heart's content :)
> Thanks
> Linda Hanigan
>
>
>
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