|
Go with CentOS on all machines, not
only the servers. The turnaround time for Fedora is a tad bit high IMO. I assume
your time is not without limits, and with CentOS you'll be supported till
like 2014 with patches and stuff IIRC. Fedora is 1,5yrs/release I
think.
If you can afford it, use RHEL on the
server (I think you'll be fine with the most basic entitlement). Remember, if
nobody buys RHEL there won't be any CentOS.
Install one client and set it up like
you want it and create a kickstart-file. Use that file when installing the other
clients.
For proxy, why not use a separate old
machine together with Smoothwall Express 3.0? It's a firewall appliance that
includes a transparant proxy which requires no setup on the client-side. Plenty
of mods too, like content-filtering to filter out pron and other filth. See here
for info on Smoothwall http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=smoothwall.
Smoothwall can fix your dhcp-thing too. Installation in general of SW is a
laugh, it's that simple. Just keep track of the red (ext) and green
(int) networks. 8-)
I suggest you start with installing
the server and then the proxy/Smoothwall.
HTH. From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Harry Sukumar Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 7:04 AM To: centos@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: School Server Setup Hello
All!!! I was wondering if you can help me
little bit…. I am trying to help (voluntary
service) a country side school (Aboriginal community) in Northern Queensland
Australia setup lab infrastructure, it’s a very remote school and they don’t
have enough funds to go commercial The school has only till grade 6
They have 25 machines that was
bought out of the government grant but none of the machines come with windows
I was asked by the school
president to setup lab infrastructure currently they have Internet (Dynamic)
with only two machines connected I have asked them to change the
plan to Static IP address which I presume will be done some time this week
I have decided to go Linux on all
the machines including the server Could some one please cast some
light on how I can carry on with this project, I am not sure where to start and
I am fairly new to Linux and system administration
world Currently what’s in my mind is to
setup fedora on all desktop and CentOS5 as my server with following services
configured Proxy-squid (all the traffic to
pass through) Firewall
Apache Squirrel mail
DNS DHCP I am not sure where to start with
this project Your help will be highly
appreciated by the little kids who have never even touched a computer before in
there life!!! -- Many Thanks
Harry |
<<attachment: smime.p7s>>
_______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
