[ILUG] School Network server

[uno at eircom.net]

I recently did the same thing for my old secondary school

1. DHCP server
2. Web proxy using wwwoffle
3. Webmail server using neomail
4. mail server using qmail (This required a registered domain and some tricks)  Talk to www.bayridge.ie,  they provide the mail queueing service for us.  It is a great solution that saved us about £2k in annual fees.
5. I didn't implement SAMBA for the file server as they already had a PC doing that running NT Server (and I didn't want to get involved in supporting that)


I have the scripts for creating hundreds of accounts and passwords
(I needed 750 accounts) and I used Mandrake 7.1

I used an ISDN card in the PC which I got for free (somewhere)
This did the dialup for access for the rest of the Win95 PCs
(about 30 others)

The proxy can be slow when they are all surfing different sites at the same time.

It works really well (apart from when the power was switched off)

"Darragh Rogan" <darragh at roganmedia.com> wrote:

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<  Hi,
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<  My old primary school want me back to network 20 pcs. They're running
<  windows - not a whole lot I can about that because of all the educational
<  sw. I want to set up a server that:
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<  # dials up to the internet at certain times (they get =A3200 credit each =
<  year
<  from eircom)
<  # acts as a proxy server
<  # acts as a webserver (Apache - I'd say)
<  # has a webMAIL server (thats the difficult bit!)
<  # is a file server
<  
<  All of these would need to work on a win machine accross the net - how wo=
<  uld
<  I set the server up with Linux? I have Mandrake 6.
<  
<  Thanks,
<  
<  Darragh Rogan
<  www.roganmedia.com
<  darragh at roganmedia.com
<  +353 86 8616425
<  
<  PS I'd say all the modems there are winmodems - whats a good bog standard
<  cheap 56k modem
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