[ILUG] Looking for a small, quiet server device.

[Jason Tallon]

Darragh wrote:
> Good morning.  
>
> I'm very likely hoping for too much but I'm doing some work in an office that would really benefit from a small server.  
>
> Requirements of this server are:
> Something about the size of a normal residential internet router.  AS quiet as one too. 
> A distribution of Linux..... obviously. 
> most importantly,  easily configurable to authenticate users on windows machines. 
> some kind of mail server to pull in mail from a number of pop3 servers.  Squirrelmail for remote access would be nice but not escential. 
> Another very important function is a proxy. Both for regulating usage and reporting.  Squid would be great. 
> If at all possible, a method of attaching removable storage either via LAN or USB would really help. 
>
> I know I'm asking for a lot but the people I'm doing this work for are not particularly technical.  However, their requirements are expanding as they take more staff on.  Their already paying out quite a lot for more desktops so I want to keep the price of this device reasonably low and one major factor is keeping the running cost down as well.  
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> I've heard of projects in the past set up to build Linux distributions on very portable hardware so I'm almost sure at least some of this functionality is possible.  
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> If absolutely necessary, I could configure this functionality on a normal PC but I'm still not as skilled at this than most of you and I've only about two and a half weeks to get this up and running. 
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> Any suggestions welcome. 
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> Darragh
> www.digitaldarragh.com
>   
Hi

You could consider an   **eTC-3800 with a 4GB flash card or a 2.5" hard
drive from www.jmcsoft.ie, you can install Linux from external USB media
and add an external USB hard drive for extra storage.

Jason