Netwacky87 Posted December 5, 2007 Posted December 5, 2007 Hiya everyone! Firstly, Merry Christmas to come to everyone! Hope everyone has a good one! We currently have a spare server sitting doing nothing around the place, Its only a P3, 886Mhz Server 2000 rack mountable server but it does have plenty of hard drive space as it was used as a file server, Its a shame to see it just sitting there doing nothing, can anybody suggest anything that we can use it as? Dont really want to go down the file server route again as we already have a mound of space anyway! Any suggestions welcome! Martin
Netwacky87 Posted December 5, 2007 Author Posted December 5, 2007 Print / Virus / WSUS to name a few. Already have these, apart from Print server but i dont think my boss likes them!
azrael78 Posted December 5, 2007 Posted December 5, 2007 Developmental server? Use it to play with when you plan to make big system or network changes, so you can get a feel of how to do it in a safe environment? I'd love that ability here, but - to slightly change a Black Adder III quote: Money is like socks, plenty of it about but we never seem to get any.
Netwacky87 Posted December 5, 2007 Author Posted December 5, 2007 Have both of them already, seem to have servers coming out of our ears! I like the idea of a development server though! Mart
ChrisH Posted December 5, 2007 Posted December 5, 2007 Setup nagios on it and have it monitor all your important devices on your network.
mullet_man Posted December 5, 2007 Posted December 5, 2007 If you don't have a print server, how do you run your networked printers?
Guest richard Posted December 5, 2007 Posted December 5, 2007 Send it to me as I can use it at home.......
Netwacky87 Posted December 5, 2007 Author Posted December 5, 2007 If you don't have a print server, how do you run your networked printers? They are connected locally via usb or parallell and shared, Not the idealiest of ways but works well for us Mart
mullet_man Posted December 5, 2007 Posted December 5, 2007 If it works then great, but a place to centrally manager printers would be a easier solution.
Netwacky87 Posted December 5, 2007 Author Posted December 5, 2007 Yeah yeah definetly agree with you but i would say that around only 10-15% of our printers have a network card in them! pain i know!
Kyle Posted December 5, 2007 Posted December 5, 2007 Don't use it for Sophos server................it would not handle it. They are connected locally via usb or parallell and shared, Not the idealiest of ways but works well for us Sounds like a confurationial nightmare.
Netwacky87 Posted December 5, 2007 Author Posted December 5, 2007 Don't use it for Sophos server................it would not handle it. They are connected locally via usb or parallell and shared, Not the idealiest of ways but works well for us Sounds like a confurationial nightmare. We already have a sophos server which runs fine (shockingly!) lol, the printer side of things really isnt as bad as you would think it works quite well for us!
Pete10141748 Posted December 5, 2007 Posted December 5, 2007 We found some great uses for our old server. For a month it acted as a very nice footstall under the workbench in the office, then it became a very nutritional lunch for the skip! Oh, and we also gutted the poor thing and removed all it's componants, which are now adorning the shelving in the office, gathering dust and generally looking like crap, with the exception of the 1Gb RAM, which we put in a Windows 2000 machine to keep it running until the grip on the school's wallet is released by the powers that be We tried to put the HDD in one of the admin PC's, but it turned out that the PC already had a bigger HDD than the server's old one 8O Yes, it really was that bad
Joedetic Posted December 5, 2007 Posted December 5, 2007 Or, not only run nagios...run cacti too and get some SNMP graphing on the go. Great for monitoring hard drive space in all those servers you've got and network traffic on switches etc etc.
Guest Guest Posted December 5, 2007 Posted December 5, 2007 Test webserver for the kids. When i get round to it im going to; setup apache etc, samba with ldap auth with each kid having an area which is avalible as a mapped drive in windows. All areas will be under the httpdocs/www folder so the kids wil just have to browse to http://server/username Then a cron job to delete all files at the end of each day so that the kids dont start using it as a dumping ground for music/pics/etc
TekkyMatt Posted December 5, 2007 Posted December 5, 2007 I have just acquired a spare and I turned it into a streaming media server. Put all our old-but-still used video's on there, all of our homemade content, taped TV shows from teacher tv and BBC (all legal). Its a route where you have to be aware of copyright issues etc but it will remove the need for TV's, VCR's, Stereos, some DVD's. It is only being designed to stream to 15 machines (only those connected to projector/whitebaord) all done through links in a webpage using VLC (fedora on server). It worked great until a more important server had hardware issues and the media server had to canibalised, but it will be back by popular demand in the new year !!
djm968 Posted December 5, 2007 Posted December 5, 2007 Install VMWare server (free download) Its the best way to try various Operating Systems and applications without having to rebuild base server everytime. http://www.vmware.com/products/server/faqs.html
brubakes Posted January 3, 2008 Posted January 3, 2008 Could always set it up as a dedicated traffic scanner.
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