beermouse

Quick question, why Windows? The rest, except hMailServer being a win app, are open source apps that are optimised to work in Linux. Why pay for a windows license to do something that should just as easily run perfectly on a linux box? I can understand the whole initial set up being more complex but once you get past that, your system will be more reliable. And it would also allow you to integrate nicely with your Active Directory for authentication, removing the need to set up accounts separately. Hi again - this is my first time trying the quote button - I hope it works out. The main reason for a windows box is that I have some sort of clue as to what goes on on those, and the thing shall be in use at day one after summerbreak - which I prefer spending at the beach, not in front of a test setup, frantically reading Linux for Dummies. Secondly, the thing will be sitting on a dedicated connection, servicing 2 different AD domains - neither of which I'd like to have exposed to the outside world. But it seems anything can happen - I am currently struggling to get Joomla to connect with MySQL, which wasn't a problem in my Ubuntu test setup, and it seems to me from the forums that anything can happen regarding Joomlas' licencing from version 1.5? Beermouse

In my experience, PXE and Ghost is the only way to go, if your setup looks just a little like mine - which is old computers with no USB and bootable CD-roms, new cheap computers that each requires a new unique NIC-driver, tons of teachers' homemade programs that doesn't understand RIS or MSI or anything, the need to set various switches on the Ghost-program - and a fast network. The short time it takes to set up pays back in no time. Just my 2 øre. Beermouse

Hi again, all, and first of all thanks for all your inputs - 2nd, sorry for my absense. After alot of research and quick testing - and a meeting today with the guys that shall run the CMS/web, the beancounters and the person in charge for keeping it up and running (me ) we ended at: W2k3 OS Apache MySQL PHP Joomla hMailServer squirrelmail Can anybody see any obvious pitfalls in that? And what other things would be benefitial to add? (In this case more is better - the sooner this monstrosity is brought to its' knees the better :twisted: - I would really prefer to have it all split up on separate boxes.) 2ndly, does anybody know of any How-To's for a setup like this? I'd prefer not to run any of the many WAMP-setups I have seen the last couple of days, as they don't offer much possibility for keeping parts apart. Speaking of which, can anybody think up a sensible partitioning-scheme for this combination? Antivirus of some sort (I have licences for F-Secure) is a must since teachers, and at some time even students will be allowed to upload stuff, but I guess stuff will break quickly if I put F-Secure on the whole thing. Oh, and any suggestions towards a hostname for the system? Unfortunately QuiltOfCthulhu is already taken. Beermouse

My apologies if this comes twice - all I got was a blank page when I clicked Submit. After a new record low uptime, the powers that be has decided to pull our email and webserver inhouse, and ordered an extra fully open internet connection for that, and 1 (yes, one whole 1!) server. The problem is now: what to put on it? It shall serve app. 600 email-accounts with POP3 and IMAP and Webmail access, a webserver with some sort of CMS, a ton of podcasts, some sort of SQL, maybe a possibility of hosting various students and teachers websites, and no doubt a few other things that they have forgot to tell me about. As usual, there is no budget, so although I am a point-and-click admin (OS/2 and Lantastic cert's, you know of any openings? 8O ), I guess it will have to be a free *NIX thingy, with which I have very little experience. The top priorities are easy user management (lots of people going through here every year), reliable backup and restore (preferrably down to single email level), and, if possible, a nice shiny point-and-click GUI. Any ideas/suggestions/questions? Beermouse

Hi all, we run a fine piece of software, dated back from the last millenium that uses MCI.OCX for whatever reason. Now it seems some Windows update or somesuch has unregistered/removed/changed it since it got included in the image we clone clients with, back in 1999. Since I'd prefer not having to manually reinstall the app. on 100+ clients (all XP), I am wondering if anybody has a suggestion as to how to reinstall it from an AD computer startup script?